02880cam a2200457 i 4500 544931140 TxAuBib 20181228120000.0 180713s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018010176 9780374154776 hbk. 0374154775 hbk. (OCoLC)1044782454 DLC eng rda DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib rda Freeman, Joanne B., 1962- The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war / Joanne B. Freeman. Blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war. Field of blood : congressional violence and the road to civil war. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. xvii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-427) and index. The Union incarnate for better and worse : the United States Congress -- The mix of men in Congress : meeting place of north and south -- The pull and power of violence : the Cilley-Graves duel (1838) -- Rules of order and the rule of force : dangerous words and the Gag rule debate (1836-44) -- Fighting for the Union : the Compromise of 1850 and the Benton-Foote scuffle (1850) -- A tale of two conspiracies : the power of the press and the battle over Kansas (1854-55) -- Republicans meet the slave power : Charles Sumner and beyond (1855-61.) "Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on [a] ... range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests ... These fights didn't happen in a vacuum. Freeman's ... accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war"--Publisher marketing. 20181228. United States Congress History 19th century. Legislators United States History 19th century. Legislators Violence against United States. Political violence United States History 19th century. Political culture United States History 19th century. United States Politics and government 1815-1861. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. BTCLS