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May 22, 1856: A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA WALKS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Brooks lifted his cane to beat Sumner, and here the action in the book stops, so that Steve Sheinkin can explain just where this confrontation started. In the process, he unravels the complicated string of events – the small things, the personal ones, the big issues– that led to The Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America’s very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out.
Steven Sheinkin has been writing history textbooks for years. A meticulous researcher an documenter, he is also a former teacher, and knows well how to grab a young readers’ interest and hold it. Steve Sheinkin lives in Brooklyn, NY.
How to Rip a Country Apart
On May 22, 1856, a congressman from South Carolina
walked into the Senate chamber, looking for trouble.
With a cane in his hand, Preston Brooks
scanned the nearly empty room and
spotted the man he wanted: Senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
Sumner was sitting at a desk,
writing letters, unaware he had
a visitor.
Steven Sheinkin, author of "Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War," "King George: What Was His Problem? The Whole Hilarious Story of the Revolution," and "Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion" discusses his writing style.
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