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Original Essays | November 9, 2009

Jesse Bullington: IMG Abash'd the Devil Stood

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I don't believe in evil. It's a word I use, certainly, because words are shortcuts and we all take the short way round from time to time, but that's... Continue »
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Raising Holy Hell

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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.

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Bruce Olds is also the author of Bucking the Tiger, an American Library Association Notable Book. He lives in New Jersey.

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ISBN:
9780312420932
Author:
Olds, Bruce
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
History
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Abolitionists
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Biographical fiction
Copyright:
1995
Edition Description:
Picador USA Pbk
Publication Date:
August 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.52x5.50x.86 in. .97 lbs.
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