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By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper’s Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South’s greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson’s cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union.
- Sales Rank: #556861 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-07
- Released on: 2013-05-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Titles regularly appear that posit the cause of the American Civil War—one indication that the war has no unassailable explanation. The prolific Fleming, for decades a fixture among American historians, pinpoints public opinion as the proximate origin of the war, specifically its acquisition by 1860 of a polarized, paranoid character, pitting Northerners’ fear of “slave power” against Southerners’ terror of a race war sparked by Northern abolitionists (John Brown was their nightmare made real). Fleming recounts attitudes of prominent Founders toward slavery, emphasizing how their general recognition of its injustice never quite trended, during the early decades of the 1800s, toward emancipation. Instead of declining, the peculiar institution retrenched and expanded. Without understanding white Southerners’ predicaments, Fleming argues, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison damned them, their region, and the Union. An array of Southerners’ ripostes to Northern criticisms peppers Fleming’s narrative of each section’s exacerbating willingness to impute baleful motives to the other. Making a plausible presentation of antebellum attitudes and illusions, Fleming is sure to spark lively discussion about the Civil War. --Gilbert Taylor
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Praise for A Disease in the Public Mind
"Lincoln would have liked this brilliant book. It lights a path through history to his great goal: an America united by understanding and forgiveness."—Charles Bracelen Flood, author of 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
"For a different take on the Civil War...Thomas Fleming is a delightful and provocative historian."—Washington Times
"A sweeping work"—Civil War Book Review
Kirkus Reviews, March 2013
“[A] thesis-driven tour.”
Booklist, 4/1
“The prolific Fleming, for decades a fixture among American historians, pinpoints public opinion as the proximate origin of the war…Making a plausible presentation of antebellum attitudes and illusions, Fleming is sure to spark lively discussion about the Civil War.”
Publishers Weekly, 3/18
“[Fleming is] always a quirky, contrarian writer-historian.”
What Would the Founders Think?, 4/10/13
“An interesting and readable book. In the course of Fleming’s narrative he casts light on some little discussed related events.”
Roanoke Times, 4/26/13
“A thoughtful examination of the root cause of that costly conflagration that interrupted the lives of the entire nation…Fleming’s trademark as an historian is his ability to tell a story without interjecting his bias or his own opinions, unless they are supported by facts. In this book, Fleming continues that tradition of professional observation…Fleming’s story about our ‘disease in the public mind’ is the very essence of good history.”
Library Journal, 5/1/13
“Controversial.”
New York Journal of Books, 5/7/13
“Do we really need another book about the Civil War? Mr. Fleming makes a solid, compelling case in the affirmative. His narrative weaves new threads through this seminal event in American history. Through his exposition of largely ignored events he affords us a clearer, much more succinct picture of antebellum America…Fleming’s scholarship digs further into the prevailing Southern and Northern attitudes and mores of the period to draw into sharper relief the more widespread concerns, political and public, behind the Civil War…Certainly this book will provoke controversy of some manner, but we can ill afford to take as gospel truth what has typically been passed off as general history…A Disease in the Public Mind is not simply a thoughtful read, it is another call never to forget our sordid past, to face and conquer our fears.”
Wall Street Journal, 5/25/13
“A great deal of fine scholarship…Mr. Fleming more than supports his arguments…Well-researched and well-written…[A] superbly revisionist book.”
American History, August 2013
“Thoughtful and provocative…The prewar arc of divisive national self-destruction he describes looks eerily, unhappily familiar today.”
ForeWard, Summer 2013
“Extremely captivating…Ties together disparate people and events in revealing ways…Fascinating and entertaining.”
Philadelphia Tribune, 5/23/13
“Makes a convincing case that the polarization that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War began decades earlier than most historians are willing to admit…A Disease in the Public Mind is an attempt to offer understanding and forgiveness for both sides of a war the continues to challenge the country’s founding principles of liberty and equality.”
Garden Grove Journal, 5/23/13
“[Fleming’s] research is excellent…This book presents an interesting perspective on the Civil War and its causes that is a clear departure from most of the literature on that subject.”
Huffington Post, 8/27/2013
“With myth destroying zeal and careful research Fleming contends that a fanatical sense of moral superiority on the part of the abolitionists, an irrational fear of a race war by Southerners abetted by sinister political posturing, and a deeply biased media were the prime motivating factors in a war that by far surpassed the casualties of all wars combined since America was founded…Fleming delves deeply into the hate and alarm engendered by both sides.”
Collected Miscellany, 2/17/2014
“A fascinating look at the causes of the Civil War…Fleming makes a convincing argument that the fringe elements (fanatics in his words) in both regions pushed the country toward a civil war…Any fan of Civil War history would enjoy this engaging and enlightening take on the causes of the Civil War.”
The Colonial Dames of America Annual Book Award Winner
Roanoke Times (Va), 3/23/14
“Fleming’s emphasis on slavery politics, rather than military operations, presents a book that will stir lively debate.”
Villadom Times (NJ), 3/19/14
“Read this book if you want to understand America as a reality and not as a collection of myths.”
Harvard Bookstore, Best Sellers List, 9/5/14
Sturbridge Times Magazine, December 2014
“An exploration of how we got from slavery’s introduction to the fratricidal conflict. It is also somewhat of a history of the nation up to that point, as the two are not separable…It is detailed in its exploration of slavery and the impact of the peculiar institution on the development of the United States and is a wonderful resource.”
About the Author
Thomas Fleming is a distinguished historian and author of more than fifty books. A frequent guest on PBS, A&E, and the History Channel, Fleming has contributed articles to American Heritage, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and many other magazines. He lives in New York City.
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Everything you need to know about the Civil War but were afraid to ask
By Robert Bookman
If you want to read one book to understand why the Civil War not only occurred but had a certain fatalistic inevitability, look no further than Thomas Fleming's A DISEASE IN THE PUBLIC MIND (Da Capo Press). The distinguished historian poses the fresh and timely question: Why is it that of all of the Western slaveholding nations, The United States was the only one that needed a Civil War to end it? The analysis of the answer that Fleming slowly and methodically develops involves both the fundamentalism of the abolitionists and the fear of insurrection in the slave states. There were statistically speaking very few slaveowners in the slave states, but the populace was driven by fear that freeing the slaves would lead to a repeat of the slaughters from the slave insurrection in Haiti led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1804 and the smaller but much closer to home violent rebellion of Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, or worse. Even if you think you know the history that led to the slaughter of a now-estimated 825,000 lives (out of a population of approximately 32 million) this page turner will take you step by step from the coming of slavery to America to Appomattox Court House in a way that truly is "A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War".
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Enlightening
By Suzanne
Being from Virginia, which was so pivotal in the War for Independence and the War Between the States, I was hoping to learn more about why my state seceded, and I did. I'm a history major, and I've taught history, and in all my studying I've never learned what I learned in this well written book. If you want to have a better understanding of the root causes of the Civil War, you will gain it here.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Tell me more...please!
By Thomas B. Fowler
I love to learn...and Fleming loves to teach, I think. When we think we know all about John Brown or Robert E. Lee--Fleming brings out really important nuggets of gold that enrich our comprehension of these men. Plus, Thomas Fleming seems to display a bit of philosophy when he was struck by Pres. Buchanan's observation about the temporary insanity that started such a huge war. North and South. I was delighted to find very little Northern bias, just the historian uncovering the truth about flawed humans, who manage to launch horrible wars to ''solve'' some imagined problem.
I recommend this book to America...to the schools as well as to the crusty old professor who has taught the subject for decades.
Tell me more, please, Thomas.
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