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

Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Frémont 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 election of 1856 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, DC, hotel; and on the floor of the Senate ano...

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