Joanne B. Freeman

'The Field of Blood'

Bog | Engelsk

In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all

'Affairs of Honor'

Bog | Engelsk

A major reassessment of American political culture in the days of Jefferson, Hamilton, and Burr "[A] landmark study of Hamilton and the founders."-Jeff Sharlet, Chronicle of Higher Education "Demands the attention of everyone with a serious