"What Was John Brown Like?" A Biographer's Deep Dive

John Brown Today

English - December 20, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
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In this episode, Lou takes a "deep dive" on understanding John Brown as a person, from describing his physical and personality traits to an extended discussion about Brown's religious views and his inclination to take up for the underdog. Arguing that Brown certainly is different from popular portrayals, Lou unpacks a biographer's perspective on "the Old Man" that challenges some conventional notions and introduces new insights to a man that is typically misrepresented as unbalanced, angry, and deeply violent. This is a marathon, but one worth running. Interested listeners can find many of the themes discussed here in Lou's compact but substantive study, John Brown: The Cost of Freedom (2007).

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