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John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook by Steven Lubet (review)

John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook by Steven Lubet... himself " (302). With judicious editing Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism might have been useful in the classroom, but advanced graduate students and Lincoln scholars will find in this thick book valuable insights on the nature of morality and democratic politics. Erik J. Chaput erik j. chaput teaches at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and in the School of Continuing Education at Providence College. He is the author of The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (University Press of Kansas, 2013). John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook. By Steven Lubet. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 325. Cloth, $28.00.) Twenty-two paths led a diverse band of abolitionists to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859. One path conducted a grim-faced patriarch named John Brown. The other twenty-one did not. Yet Brown's imposing figure has overshadowed his followers, and John Edwin Cook's exploits, though not ignored in previous scholarship, have received less attention than they deserve. Most studies of Harpers Ferry place Brown under the microscope, focusing on important but well-worn debates about his faith, strategy, or sanity. With Brown in our peripheral vision, however, other aspects of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

John Brown’s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook by Steven Lubet (review)

The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 3 (4) – Nov 16, 2013

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himself " (302). With judicious editing Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism might have been useful in the classroom, but advanced graduate students and Lincoln scholars will find in this thick book valuable insights on the nature of morality and democratic politics. Erik J. Chaput erik j. chaput teaches at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and in the School of Continuing Education at Providence College. He is the author of The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (University Press of Kansas, 2013). John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook. By Steven Lubet. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 325. Cloth, $28.00.) Twenty-two paths led a diverse band of abolitionists to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859. One path conducted a grim-faced patriarch named John Brown. The other twenty-one did not. Yet Brown's imposing figure has overshadowed his followers, and John Edwin Cook's exploits, though not ignored in previous scholarship, have received less attention than they deserve. Most studies of Harpers Ferry place Brown under the microscope, focusing on important but well-worn debates about his faith, strategy, or sanity. With Brown in our peripheral vision, however, other aspects of

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