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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

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The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American government and remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. His uncompromising moral standards made him a lightning rod in an era fraught with conflict.

Sumner's fight to end slavery made him a hero in the North and stirred outrage in the South. In what has been called the first blow of the Civil War, he was physically attacked by a colleague on the Senate floor. Unwavering and arrogant, Sumner refused to abandon the moral high ground, even if doing so meant the onslaught of the nation's most destructive war. He used his office and influence to transform the United States during the most contentious and violent period in the nation's history.

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War presents a remarkably different view of our bloodiest war through an insightful reevaluation of the man who stood at its center.

"A truly perceptive study."

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"Few books can be recommended wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike. This one can."

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"[Full of] Donald's unparalleled knowledge and provocative interpretations."

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PublisherSourcebooks
Release dateMar 1, 2009
ISBN9781402241574
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
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David Donald

David Herbert Donald, who has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, is Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include Lincoln's Herndon, Lincoln Reconsidered, The Politics of Reconstruction, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man, and Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.

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    947 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, by David Donald (read 17 Mar 1968) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1961) This is a scholarly historical study. It takes Sumner from his birth in Boston in 1811 up to the beginning of the Civil War. I had recalled the assault on Sumner by Preston Brooks always horrified me and was incomprehensible. This book shows the context and makes it seem less hard to understand. Sumner was given to provocative speeches, and while essentially right, when I read this book I was getting conservative enough so as to feel his means extreme. Actually, the book is very objective and does not show Sumner in an exactly favorable light. I read the second volume of this two-volume biography on July 25, 1971.

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