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The Field of Blood audiobook
- By: Joanne B. Freeman
- Narrator: Joanne B. Freeman
- Category: American Government, Legislative Branch, Political Science
- Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 11, 2018
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood Audiobook Summary
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“One of the best history books I’ve read in the last few years.” –Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.
These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities–the feel, sense, and sound of it–as well as its nation-shaping import.
Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF SMITHSONIAN’S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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The Field of Blood Audiobook Narrator
Joanne B. Freeman is the narrator of The Field of Blood audiobook that was written by Joanne B. Freeman
Joanne B. Freeman, a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, she is a cohost of the popular history podcast BackStory.
About the Author(s) of The Field of Blood
Joanne B. Freeman is the author of The Field of Blood
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The Field of Blood Full Details
| Narrator | Joanne B. Freeman |
| Length | 11 hours 19 minutes |
| Author | Joanne B. Freeman |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | September 11, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9781427293411 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Field of Blood is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is American Government, Legislative Branch, Political Science
Additional info
The publisher of the The Field of Blood is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427293411.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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