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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War 

by Joanne Freeman

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative s

Publisher

Picador Paper

Publication date

Sep 10, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

476

ISBN

9781250234582