The Field Of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Written by Joanne B. Freeman
Read by the author, with the recording produced by Macmillan Audio.
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
From 1830 to 1860, members of the United States Congress committed more than 70 violent acts against one another. Joanne B. Freeman recounts how Southern Democrats’ attacks on critics of slavery spilled from the capitol building onto streets and dueling grounds.
Read with brisk enthusiasm by the author, this audiobook shows how interpersonal incivility presaged and hastened civil war.
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Ryan Paul Winn is a columnist and media critic who’s rarely without an audiobook or his earbuds. When not writing or teaching in the Liberal Studies department at College of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin, he can be found researching overlooked history in local and national archives.
