"Brown really touches many of the hot buttons in our history and culture: violence, race, religious fundamentalism, the right of the individual to defy their government," Horwitz says. "He's that stone in the shoe of our history."
Pulitzer-winning journalist Tony Horwitz, who visits Thursday, November 17, talks with NPR about his new book, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. More.
And click here to visit the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in the Adirondacks.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
That Stone in the Shoe of Our History
