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Joanne B. Freeman: Live at Politics and Prose
Joanne B. Freeman: Live at Politics and Prose
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
As the national debate over slavery grew more impassioned in the 1840s and 1850s, local brush-fires throughout the nation anticipated the Civil War to come. The halls of Congress, too, saw their share of physical violence, and Freeman, a Yale history professor and cohost of the podcast BackStory, draws on a wide range of sources to document scores of incidents ranging from shouting to shoving matches, fistfights, drawn knives, and even death threats among elected representatives. Her revelatory book tracks a seldom-acknowledged history of incivility in American politics, revises views of familiar figures such as John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, and shows how the era’s reporting of these sensational events led to a new, splashier journalism.https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780374154776Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Oct 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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