Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400103169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carton usefully sets Brown's abolitionism against the backdrop of a larger American story—the increased radicalism of black abolitionists beginning in the 1840s; the Compromise of 1850 (which admitted California to the union as a free state while passing the Fugitive Slave Act); and ongoing debates about whether slavery should be legal in western territories. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Carton has written an absorbing and inspiring, though not wholly innovative, biography of abolitionist firebrand John Brown. His Brown is a hero who set the nation on a road to justice that we are traveling still. A historian of American culture, Carton (The Marble Faun: Hawthorne's Transformations) centers this portrait on Brown's ceaseless efforts
Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy-and the staggering sacrifices he made for his ideals-fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism. citizen committed to absolute racial equality. Evan Carton captures the complex, tragic, and provocative story of Brown the committed abolitionist, Brown the tender yet demanding and often absent father and husband, and Brown the radical American patriot who attacked the American state in the name of American principles. Through new research into archives, attention to overlooked family letters, and reinterpretation of documents and events, Carton essentially reveals a missing link in American history. Here are his friendships (Brown lived, worked, ate, and fought alongside African Americans, in defiance of the culture around him), his family (he turned his twenty children by two wives into a dedicated militia), and his ideals (inspired by the Declaration of Independence and the Golden Rule, he collaborated with black leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and Harriet Tubman to overthrow slavery). A wrenching family saga, Patriotic Treason positions John Brown at the heart of our most profound and enduring national debates. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes - as a madm
Hike Mogan said Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America. John Brown is too complex a figure in American history to ever be deified in a way that, for example, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, or Abraham Lincoln were. All used violence as a means to free a people. But it seems the difference between Brown and other "American heroes" is that Brown worked without the benediction and carte blanche that a position in the government/military provides. In a nation that claims to cherish its freedom and yet at the same time adheres to rules and re. Inconsistencies and excesses James W. Durney In the Civil War's Emancipation Tradition John Brown is one of the major players, the doomed idealist, martyred by the evil slave-holding empire. With his full beard and wild eyes, Brown is an Old Testament prophet passing judgment and calling down the plague of civil war on America. This view makes it almost impossible to find an objective book about the man. He seems either bathed in a white light blinded by his vision or a cloven hove monster with bloody claws. Neither view is accurat. Not a madman This is an excellent, thoroughly researched and referenced book by Evan Carton which is also a very gripping read. Even though the outcome is known, the book is hard to put down. But while the style is nearly novelistic, it is solidly factual. I read this book because I wanted to understand if the usual myths about Brown were correct - if he was indeed a madman. Carton shows him to be a deeply religious and principled man, and one whose reasoning was consistent with his values and with h