Stephen Puleo, Author . Beacon $25 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5020-0
In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History
magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston's North End and killed 21 people...
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Stephen Puleo, Author . Beacon $27.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5043-9
“No period in Boston's history was more dynamic” than the second half of the 19th century, writes Puleo (The Boston Italians
) in this smoothly narrated account of that time and place. Through the determination of the abolitionists,
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Stephen Puleo. Westholme (Chicago Distribution Center, dist.), $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59416-164-3
In 1856, two days after a fiery speech by abolitionist senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, South Carolina representative Preston Brooks entered the Senate chamber and beat Sumner brutally with a heavy cane. Historian Puleo (Due to Enemy Action:
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Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-06574-2
Puleo (The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War), a historian and former reporter, sets out to trace the creation of America’s founding documents and the later efforts to protect and preserve them. But counter to the book’s subtitle,...
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Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-27627-8
Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner’s lifelong devotion to equal rights was akin to “digging a deep well with nothing more than a spoon... yet he never stopped digging,” according to this rousing biography from historian Puleo (Voyage of Mercy). As
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