Plausible Man

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story"I love this research." —Henry Louis Gates Jr., at a Hutchins Center presentation of Susanna Ashton''s findingsIn December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one ni...