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John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (Southern Classics Series) Paperback – May 20, 1993

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Warren's first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King's Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.

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Warren wrote this, his first book, as a student in 1929. Though it's a straight biography of Civil War-rior Brown, there are shades of characters that would later people Warren's novels. This edition includes a new introduction by eminent Southern scholar C. Vann Woodward.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), the first Poet Laureate of the United States, was a major literary figure of the 20th Century. Besides volumes of his poetry, he published eight novels, of which All the King's Men is the best known. Other works include Night Rider and The Legacy of the Civil War.

Series: Southern Classics Series
Paperback: 478 pages
Publisher: J.S. Sanders Books; Reprint edition (May 20, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1879941198
ISBN-13: 978-1879941199
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 8.2 inches
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Larry Lee Peterson

events launching this new Union into the great struggle for its life

April 22, 2015

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A classic version of one of the most important, and misunderstood, events launching this new Union into the great struggle for its life. We may never know Brown's complete story but this is as close as we can get at this moment in history.

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O. A. Glazebrook

Exposes the Myth that began the Destruction of the Republic

August 28, 2011

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John Brown was a fraud, murderer, thief and a failure who had no other interest in the Abolitionist movement than what he could get from the wealthy Boston Brahmins and people like Gerrit Smith.

Penn's book is one of the few that actually tells the truth as to who Brown really was. It is far more readable than the first to expose Brown. This was a book by H. P. Wilson, who started out viewing Brown as a hero until he started digging.......

Read Wilson's version free here:

To prove the accuracy of Warren:

H. P. Wilson - John Brown Soldier of Fortune - free from Google books - download it as a PDF: [...]

To verify Wilson & Warren versions, read The Mason report:

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RE: Pottawatomie massacre - The confession of James Townsley:

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(Warren's Book on the Civil War is short but balanced and accurate IMHO:
This is short just over 100 pages.
[...] )

This book should be a must read. Other proof that Brown's story of Pottawatomie was complete B.S. can be found in S.B. Oats' version in the maps on pages: 108 & 9.

John Brown started the Civil War with his invasion of Virginia by John Brown's Provisional Government (complete with a constitutional convention) - Harper's Ferry was to be a grand repeat of Pottawatomie.

Brown should have had a lot of company on the scaffold on Dec. 2, 1859 among them H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Frederic Douglass, the "Secret Six", J.W. Howe (possibly) and almost all of Brown's original biographers. The myth of John Brown was propagated to save their necks - literally. Almost all were Harvard Alumni. the waas another person in the audience for Brown's hanging that nicely bookends the War........ guess who he/she was?

Understanding John Brown is the "Rosetta Stone" for getting at truth of the Civil War and why it was really a Jacobin Revolution.

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Corey Murray

Good story-telling, but not to be used for history

July 30, 2002

Format: Paperback

For the past year I have been engaged in a lengthy research project on John Brown and his biographers. Robert Penn Warren's John Brown: The Making of a Martyr was written when Warren was just 24 years old, and, although it demonstrates the wonderful literary ability Warren would become famous for, the book should not be used as history; Warren's anti-Brown sentiments are obvious; his tone his extremely condescending, as he take numerous snipes at Brown throughout. Warren criticizes the work of previous Brown biographers, such as Oswald Garrison Villard, but that does not stop him from using Villard as his main source, even copying some of his words nearly verbatim. Warren does make some good points, though, like how Brown created his own martyrdom, and his prose is eloquent. Many readers go for this book because of how well told it is, but for the best, most complete, accurate, unbiased, detailed biography, read Stephen B. Oates' To Purge This Land With Blood. When it comes to research, leave this one alone.

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Louis A. Decaro Jr.

Part of the Problem

September 4, 2007

Format: Paperback

While one may appreciate the literary contributions of Robert Penn Warren overall, surely this early work is an unfortunate part of the problem that the 20th century view of Brown has been so warped and skewed. Warren not only sustained the regional biases of his background, but he did no original research and largely appropriated the problematic but unquestioned "facts" of biographer Oswald G. Villard, whose "definitive" 1910 work questionably presents Brown as a kind of principled murderer. Warren found that an easy thesis to turn his way. The bottom line is that this book offers no original research, only an interpretation that says more about the author and his times and prejudices than about the subject. The quality of the writing can be otherwise judged by literary scholars, but as a biographer of Brown, this is not a book I ever have reason to reach for. It's only important to RPW's career and is recommended for those wishing to study the author's life and times. However it is largely irrelevant to any serious biographical study of Brown and no one interested in learning about the abolitionist should start or finish with this book.

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L. DeCaro Jr.

Non-essential for historical study

As a John Brown scholar and biographer, I have had to get a handle on which biographies are useful and relevant to my research.Read more

Published on August 22, 2005

Steve Quick

Criminal crowned martyr

The Harpers Ferry raid was the ember that ignited the Civil War. It was also part of a conspiracy, hidden in history almost as much as it was at the time, involving wealthy,...Read more

Published on March 26, 2000

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