The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom

by H.W. Brands

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385544006
• ISBN13: 9780385544009
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"