Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture Tapa dura - 2008

Univ Tennessee Press, 2008. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Univ Tennessee Press, 2008. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Univ Tennessee Press, 2008-05-01. Hardcover. Good.

The University Of Tennessee Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. As new . First Printing . Still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap . ISBN : 978-1-5723-3620-9 .

May 01, 2008. New. Hardcover dj, new book, still sealed in plastic! tn2.

Hardback. New. Liberator? Madman? Genius? Martyr? John Brown achieved immediate and lasting notoriety through his attempt to foment an armed insurrection among black slaves in 1859, an event that many believed hastened the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. From the moment of his capture at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, there have been widely varying interpretations of the man and his motivations. Sometimes depicted as the grim conscience of a nation whose founding proclaimed the equality of all people, sometimes portrayed as a terrorist more devoted to his own martyrdom than to his cause, Brown has been a source of inspiration, fascination, and frustration for some of the country's greatest writers and artists. In this absorbing book, Bruce Ronda examines the representations of Brown chronologically, ranging from Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown"-with its ardent defense of Brown as a patriot, Transcendentalist, and true New Englander-through treatments by anonymous… Leer más

Univ of Tennessee Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 218 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.