Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell

Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856

John Bicknell

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced

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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US...

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