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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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Description for The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
Paperback. He addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today's politics as they might at first seem. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid. Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a gutta-percha walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat ... Read more
A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid. Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a gutta-percha walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Witness to History
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894695
SKU
V9780801894695
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About Williamjames Hull Hoffer
Williamjames Hull Hoffer is an associate professor of history at Seton Hall University and the author of To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
This will be a valuable addition to Civil War collections. Booklist 2010 An extraordinary and valuable study of what these events of history reveal not only about America of the past, but also America of today, The Caning of Charles Sumner is highly recommended especially for college library collections and American Civil War shelves. Midwest Book Review The short length, ... Read more