WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. Charles Sumner: conscience of a nation

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Tameez, Zaakir
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Wendell Community - Biography
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"A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Charles Sumner is mainly known as the statesman who barely survived a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the slaveholder Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's epic life as one of America's most visionary constitutional thinkers, a man who advocated for multiracial democracy and championed equal rights more than one hundred...

2. Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War revolutionary, fighter for racial justice

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Levine, Bruce C., 1949-
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A portrait of the nineteenth-century statesman includes discussions of Stevens's decades-long fight against slavery, key role in the Union war effort, and postwar legislation for American racial justice.