John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After

“The present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper''s Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put fo...