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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown launched a surprise raid on the slaveholding South. Leading a biracial band of militant idealists, he seized the massive armory at Harpers Ferry, freed and armed slaves, and vowed to liberate every bondsman in America. Brown's daring strike sparked a savage street fight and a counterattack by U.S. Marines under Robert E. Lee. The bloodshed and court drama that followed also shocked a divided nation and propelled it toward civil war. Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising brings Brown and his uprising vividly to life and charts America's descent into explosive conflict. The result is a taut and indispensable history of a man and a time that still resonate in our own.
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Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz
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- 2012
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- Titel
- Midnight Rising
- Untertitel
- John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Tony Horwitz
- Verlag
- Picador
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0312429266
- ISBN13
- 9780312429263
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Technologie & Industrie, USA, Militärgeschichte, Kriege, Militärwesen, Amerikanische Literatur, Biographien, 19. Jahrhundert, Geschichte der USA, Afroamerikanische Literatur, Bürgerkrieg, Nordamerika, Bürgerkrieg (1861-1865)
- Beschreibung
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown launched a surprise raid on the slaveholding South. Leading a biracial band of militant idealists, he seized the massive armory at Harpers Ferry, freed and armed slaves, and vowed to liberate every bondsman in America. Brown's daring strike sparked a savage street fight and a counterattack by U.S. Marines under Robert E. Lee. The bloodshed and court drama that followed also shocked a divided nation and propelled it toward civil war. Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising brings Brown and his uprising vividly to life and charts America's descent into explosive conflict. The result is a taut and indispensable history of a man and a time that still resonate in our own.