Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
by
Joanne B. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War
In The Field of Blood, 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...