Full name: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery

Author: Henry Mayer Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312253677 9780393332360 0312253672 0393332365

In All on Fire, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) emerges as an American hero, arguably on par with Abraham Lincoln, who forced the nation to confront the explosive issue of slavery. Mayer maintains that Garrison, a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement. Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th-century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams,and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mayer's consequential biography will be read for generations to come. Similar books: John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois Holy Warriors by James Brewer Stewart Patriotic Treason by Evan Carton America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin To Purge This Land With Blood by Stephen B. Oates Grant by Ron Chernow The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner East West Street by Philippe Sands Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Three Days in Moscow by Bret Baier The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith