A new biography reexamines South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks, whose 1856 caning of Sen. Charles Sumner stunned the nation and revealed deepening fractures that pushed America into civil war.
A new biography reexamines South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks, whose 1856 caning of Sen. Charles Sumner stunned the nation and revealed deepening fractures that pushed America into civil war.


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