| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 627, xvii pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Of time and place and those who fought : 1859 and before -- A pilgrim's progress : 1800-1850 -- Free at last : 1850-1855. |
| Summary |
"The accepted view of historians has dismissed Brown as a violent and unstable fanatic, thrust into symbolic prominence by the accident of approaching civil war. Richard Boyer, who has been a New Yorker writer and co-author of Labor's Untold Story (1955), has foraged in the sources as diligently as any professional historian. But the great merit of this first volume of his biography is that it restores Brown as what he was: an archetypal hero of the epic of 19th-century America, which was both pilgrimage and enterprise...." -- Godfrey Hodgson, NYT (review posted on Amazon.com) |
| Subject |
Brown, John, 1800-1859.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- 19th century.
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Brown, John, 1800-1859 (OCoLC)fst00034505
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Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
039446124X |
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9780394461243 |
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