John Brown: The Making of a Martyr

by Robert Penn Warren

Book Overview

Warren's first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King's Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879941198
• ISBN13: 9781879941199
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Criminal crowned martyr

The Harpers Ferry raid was the ember that ignited the Civil War. It was also part of a conspiracy, hidden in history almost as much as it was at the time, involving wealthy, prominant Northerners. Among them were Stowe and even Fredrick Douglas. Brown himself was a horsethief, a murderer, and a meglamaniac. Among the evidence found on his person was the constitution of the "new republic" he would usher in after Southern whites had been slaughtered by his army of freed slaves, naming himself as the new provisional president. This well researched book so completely debunks Brown as anything but a traiterous, intolerant tyrant that it is amazing that even today he can be viewed any other way. This book will raise your awareness to a brand new level, almost as much as it raises your blood pressure.