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Title: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (Southern Classics) by Robert Penn Warren ISBN: 1-879941-19-8 Publisher: J S Sanders & Co Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good story-telling, but not to be used for history
Comment: For the past year I have been engaged in a lengthy research project on John Brown and his biographers. Robert Penn Warren's John Brown: The Making of a Martyr was written when Warren was just 24 years old, and, although it demonstrates the wonderful literary ability Warren would become famous for, the book should not be used as history; Warren's anti-Brown sentiments are obvious; his tone his extremely condescending, as he take numerous snipes at Brown throughout. Warren criticizes the work of previous Brown biographers, such as Oswald Garrison Villard, but that does not stop him from using Villard as his main source, even copying some of his words nearly verbatim. Warren does make some good points, though, like how Brown created his own martyrdom, and his prose is eloquent. Many readers go for this book because of how well told it is, but for the best, most complete, accurate, unbiased, detailed biography, read Stephen B. Oates' To Purge This Land With Blood. When it comes to research, leave this one alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent portrait of an American revolutionary
Comment: This book does an excellent job of tracing not only John Brown's travels through Harper's Ferry, but also the genesis of his abolitionism.
Fanatic he may have been, but he was a fanatic on the right side of history. Also, there's no indication that Mr. Brown was a horse thief or a meglomaniac, although he did declare bankruptcy and did desire to lead, with the aproval of freed blacks, a provisional territory until slavery had been eliminated from the south.
Apologists for southern slavery, like Steve Quick below (who seems to be a hardcore southern apologist), should remember two words that destroy any moral argument they might muster in support of the antebellum South, and against the actions of John Brown, and later the Union.
The first word, obviously, is "slavery." It is unjustifiable, and any attempts to do so are disgraceful. It's sort of like saying that Hitler built good roads.
The second word is "Andersonville." The absolutely inhumane treatment Union soldiers received at the hands of the Confederates should never be forgotten.
Rating: 5
Summary: Criminal crowned martyr
Comment: The Harpers Ferry raid was the ember that ignited the Civil War. It was also part of a conspiracy, hidden in history almost as much as it was at the time, involving wealthy, prominant Northerners. Among them were Stowe and even Fredrick Douglas. Brown himself was a horsethief, a murderer, and a meglamaniac. Among the evidence found on his person was the constitution of the "new republic" he would usher in after Southern whites had been slaughtered by his army of freed slaves, naming himself as the new provisional president. This well researched book so completely debunks Brown as anything but a traiterous, intolerant tyrant that it is amazing that even today he can be viewed any other way. This book will raise your awareness to a brand new level, almost as much as it raises your blood pressure.
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Title: John Brown by David R. Roediger, W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0679783539 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown by Warren Oates, Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0870234587 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown by Clinton Cox ISBN: 0590475746 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Merrill D. Peterson ISBN: 0813921325 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brown by Edward J. Renehan ISBN: 1570031819 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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