The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom By H. W. Brands

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Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands’s thrilling and page-turning account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.

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Five stars! Despite its awful title!I should have known I’d love this book; many years ago, I read Brands’s fine Franklin biography, subtitled interestingly enough, “The First American.” Drawn from author’s definition of an American as the Gatsby-like, Bob Dylanesque, product of “creative” autobiography, molecular striving, and a touch of hedonism, Franklin made a well reasoned first entry.But THIS book!I have to admit upfront that the American Civil War is one of my educational blindspots. Of course, I have a gauzy understanding of the major players, battles, and “plot.” I also have to admit that this abecedarian understanding is partially my own doing.An ignorant Yank through and through, growing up in Philadelphia, it was the Revolution, the framing, the towering geniuses of Enlightenment thought. The Civil version, felt like something distant and provincial, weirdly re-enacted, and laboriously detailed with place names and generals.Well. I’ve lived in Maryland, just outside of DC, for the last 20 years, and the whole thing is much closer—closer because its fundamental arguments are still being re-enacted. Our it-can’t-be-soon-enough outgoing president, is the avatar par excellence of the war’s fundamental threats. He is the most recent and frightening version, but unfortunately, taking a look at the National popular vote results, he won’t be the last.Brands’s approach, telling the story of two very distinct approaches to the war’s beginnings and reasons is compelling, the two men who represent those approaches, fascinating.While the book sags a bit with the obligatory “born ins” and “raised amongs,” Brands quickly brings us into the center of Kansas, site of human and philosophical firecrackers on the cusp of becoming infernos.Even if I didn’t, you know the rest. The import is all in the telling, the whys and hows, the incarnation of giant names into small and flawed and gifted and needy human beings.I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Frederick Douglass could have easily been included as a third character study here. He looms large in both the fore and backgrounds, and had I NOT just read Blight’s magisterial biography on Douglass, I’d be demanding much more here.Me being me, having become too tolerant to my OCD medications, I’m already well down the road to where this is headed.On my desk as I speak:Battle Cry of FreedomThe Fiery TrialThis Republic of SufferingRace and ReunionConfederates in the AtticSilence at AppomattoxShelby Foote’s three volume narrative history.Any top recommendations are appreciated.It’ll take a while. It always does, and it’s always worth it.Let me end with this because my northeastern upbringing compels me—and I may regret it: I have NO desire to visit a battlefield, Civil War related or otherwise. I’m happy to hear from those with a penchant for military history and tactics about why I SHOULD. It seems like sightseeing at a crime scene. Yes, there are differences. Mainly that both parties in this “crime” were willing participants. To me, that makes such a trip more surreal and voyeuristic not less.

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