John Brown Activist, Terrorist (9-May-1800 2-Dec-1859) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
Laurence Greene. The Raid: A Biography of Harpers Ferry. Henry Holt. 1953. Tony Horwitz. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Macmillan. 2011. 384pp. David Karsner. John Brown: Terrible "Saint". Dodd, Mead & Company. 1934. 340pp. Truman Nelson. The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston. 1973. 395pp. Stephen B. Oates. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. New York: Harper & Row. 1970. 434pp. Peggy A. Russo; Paul Finkelman (editors). Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Ohio University Press. 2005. 228pp. Gregory Toledo. The Hanging of Old Brown: A Story of Slaves, Statesmen, and Redemption. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. 276pp. Oswald Garrison Villard. John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1910. 738pp. Hill Peebles Wilson. John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique. H. P. Wilson. 1913. 450pp.
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- Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.139)
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.213)
- Webster's American Biographies (p.143)
- The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.103)
- Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.140)
- Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.93)
- Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.74)
- Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.70)
- Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.113)
- Legends in Their Own Time (p.35)
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