Cloudsplitter
From book jacket: Narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
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- A Fortunate Man - John Berger G. - John Berger A Painter of Our Time - John Berger And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos - John Berger Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks Continental Drift - Russell Banks Affliction - Russell Banks The Polymath - Peter Burke
- Several great books about John Brown, including Russell Banks’s “Cloudsplitter” and a bio from W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois wanted to bio Frederick Douglass, with whom Brown frequently argued over anti-slavery tactics. Booker T. Washington got the Douglass book in the end. Social justice types at the University of Kansas in Lawrence have always kept up his memory in various ways. Despite Kansas being a very conservative place, the statehouse has a radical mural of him inside of it holding a Bible and a rifle and furiously thundering against slavery.
