The Washington Post, April 24th, 2005
John Brown, Abolistionist The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights By David S. Reynolds. Knopf. 578 pp. $35 John Brown did not make it easy for people to love him -- until he died on the gallows. Perhaps no other figure in American experience straddles the blurred line between myth and history, legend and reality, quite like the domineering, violent, Calvinist abolitionist who attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and provided, in a way, the Pearl Harbor of the Civil War. With 22 well-armed men, Brown's famous assault aimed to seize weapons and...
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