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Charles Sumner: Conscience Of A Nation
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A Thorough Recounting Of The Great LegislatorS Life And Deed... Unlikely To Be Bettered Anytime Soon... Tameez Is Expert At Explaining SumnerS Legal Thought... One Cannot Help Wishing We Had A Charles Sumner In Washington Today.The New York TimesAn Excellent Book About The Courageous Massachusetts Senator... Drawing From Hundreds Of Letters, Articles And Speeches, Mr. Tameez Has Created A Remarkable Portrait Of A Complex Man Who Faced Many Personal Challenges... Charles Sumner Is A Moving Portrayal Of A Courageous, LongOverlooked American Who, In The Words Of One Contemporary, Stood In The Vanguard Of Freedom.Wall Street Journala Landmark Biography Of Charles Sumner, The Unsung Hero Of The American Civil War And Reconstructioncharles Sumner Is Mainly Known As The Abolitionist Statesman Who Suffered A Brutal Caning On The Senate Floor By The Proslavery Congressman Preston Brooks In 1856. This Violent Episode Has Obscured SumnerS Status As The Most Passionate Champion Of Equal Rights And Multiracial Democracy Of His Time. A Friend Of Alexis De Tocqueville, An Ally Of Frederick Douglass, And An Adviser To Abraham Lincoln, Sumner Helped The Union Win The Civil War And Ordain The Emancipation Proclamation, The Thirteenth Amendment, The FreedmenS Bureau, And The Civil Rights Act Of 1875.In A Comprehensive But FastPaced Narrative, Zaakir Tameez Presents Sumner As One Of AmericaS Forgotten Founding Fathers, A Constitutional Visionary Who Helped To Rewrite The PostCivil War Constitution And Give Birth To Modern Civil Rights Law. He Argues That Sumner Was A Gay Man Who Battled With Love And Heartbreak At A Time When Homosexuality WasnT Well Understood Or Accepted. And He Explores SumnerS Critical Partnerships With The NationS First Generation Of Black Lawyers And Civil Rights Leaders, Whose Legal Contributions To Reconstruction Have Been Overlooked For Far Too Long.An Extraordinary Achievement Of Historical And Constitutional Scholarship, Charles Sumner Brings Back To Life One Of AmericaS Most Inspiring Statesmen, Whose Formidable Ideas Remain Relevant To A Nation Still Divided Over Questions Of Race, Democracy, And Constitutional Law.
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