The Great National Circus
Eric Foner: Punch-Ups in the Senate, 22 November 2018
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
by Joanne Freeman.
Farrar, Straus, 450 pp., £20.99, September 2018,978 0 374 15477 6 Show More
by Joanne Freeman.
Farrar, Straus, 450 pp., £20.99, September 2018,
“... even a passing interest in the Civil War era has heard of the attack on Charles Sumner. But as Joanne Freeman demonstrates in The Field of Blood (the title an allusion to the Senate floor in a letter received by Sumner), it was far from the only violent incident involving members of Congress. Freeman, who teaches ... ”
