The Zealot And The Emancipator By H. W. Brands

In his 2012 bestseller, The General vs. the President, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands provided a thrilling, personality-driven narrative of two figures whose destinies collided at an epic turning point in American history: President Truman, General MacArthur, and the emerging Cold War.

Now, the New York Times bestselling historian turns his attention to the epic struggle over slavery in THE ZEALOT AND THE EMANCIPATOR (Doubleday). With clear parallels to our current moment, Brands offers a dual portrait of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, two men with radically different views on how moral people must respond to our democracy’s most extreme injustice: by incremental change within the system? Or by radical upheaval?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, two of which, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.