John Brown

Merrill D. Peterson, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, is the editor of the Library of America edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson and author of numerous books, including Lincoln in American Memory and The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (Virginia). His latest, ""Starving Armenians""; America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-30 and After, is announced in this catalog.

An extraordinary work that traces the legend of this fascinating and complex man from Brown's own era to the present day.... A tour de force. --Charles Dew, author of Bond of Iron and Apostles of Disunion; ""Insightful.... First-rate.... In Peterson's chapters, the narrative flows easily between a discussion of the events of Brown's life and the dramatization of the events in prose, poetry, and the visual arts."" --H-Net Reviews; ""The symbol of American idealistic fervor, reexamined by a Jefferson scholar."" --Washington Post Book World