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Two Miserable Presidents

Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

By Steve Sheinkin Illustrator Tim Robinson Narrator Editor Photographed by

Two Miserable Presidents

Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

By Steve Sheinkin Illustrator Tim Robinson Narrator Editor Photographed by
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May 22, 1856: A member of Congress from South Carolina walks into the Senate chamber, looking for trouble.

That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Brooks lifted his cane to beat Sumner, and here the action in the book stops, so that Steve Sheinkin can explain just where this confrontation started. In the process, he unravels the complicated string of events - the small things, the personal ones, the big issues - that led to the Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the...

May 22, 1856: A member of Congress from South Carolina walks into the Senate chamber, looking for trouble.

That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Brooks lifted his cane to beat Sumner, and here the action in the book stops, so that Steve Sheinkin can explain just where this confrontation started. In the process, he unravels the complicated string of events - the small things, the personal ones, the big issues - that led to the Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out.

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