Volume 52, Number 8 · May 12, 2005
Days of Wrath
By James M. McPherson
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
by David S. Reynolds
Knopf, 578 pp., $35.00
John Brown: The Legend Revisited
by Merrill D. Peterson
University of Virginia Press, 195 pp., $23.95; $14.95 (paper)
Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown
edited by Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman
Ohio University Press, 272 pp., $59.95; $24.95 (paper)(to be published in August 2005)
As John Brown was led to the gallows in Charlestown, Virginia, on December 2, 1859, he handed his guard a note:
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