Joanne B. Freeman Author Talk
When:
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018 6:00p -
7:30p
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018 6:00p -
7:30p
Where:
Museum of the American Revolution
101 S. 3rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Admission:
$Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 Museum Members, $10 Students
Event website:
https://www.amrevmuseum.org/events/joanne-freeman-author-talk
In her new book The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary 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. Freeman’s dramatic 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. The talk with be followed by a book signing.
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