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Charles Sumner : Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez (2025, Hardcover)

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He valued principles above politics and was prepared to put his life on the line for the sake of racial justice.

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PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-101250362555

ISBN-139781250362551

eBay Product ID (ePID)3067065898

Product Key Features

Book TitleCharles Sumner : Conscience of a Nation

Number of Pages640 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicConstitutional, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General, Historical

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes

GenreLaw, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorZaakir Tameez

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2 in

Item Weight30.3 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-047167

Reviews"We have dozens of great biographies of Abraham Lincoln, and now, at long last, we have a great biography of Lincoln's partner and prod in the crusade for liberty and equality, Charles Sumner. What Chernow did for Hamilton, Tameez now does for Sumner. Musical, anyone?" --Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University, author of America's Constitution "Zaakir Tameez paints a vivid, layered, textured, compelling, timeless, and topical portrait of Charles Sumner. With the rigor of a historian, the prose of a poet, and the sensitivity of an essayist, Tameez writes of a Harvard educated White New Englander who marshalled erudition and eloquence against rank racism like Martin Luther King and James Baldwin--a century before. Tameez's powerful biography also reminds us of the price Sumner paid for the hope of a multiracial democracy, at the hands of white supremacy, on the eve of the Civil War, and reminds us of the price to be paid today." --Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School, former President of the NAACP "Few American lives from the past speak to our present as self-evidently as Charles Sumner's, which makes Zaakir Tameez's choice to retrieve him from forgetfulness and misinterpretation so inspired and inspirational. By placing Sumner in its own time, this illuminating portrait is a reminder of the need to grapple with the Constitution and its meaning in our own era -- both learning from the goals and principles that animated him, and imagining how to make them our own." --Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, "Few American lives from the past speak to our present as self-evidently as Charles Sumner's, which makes Zaakir Tameez's choice to retrieve him from forgetfulness and misinterpretation so inspired and inspirational. By placing Sumner in its own time, this illuminating portrait is a reminder of the need to grapple with the Constitution and its meaning in our own era -- both learning from the goals and principles that animated him, and imagining how to make them our own." --Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World "Zaakir Tameez paints a vivid, layered, textured, compelling, timeless, and topical portrait of Charles Sumner. With the rigor of a historian, the prose of a poet, and the sensitivity of an essayist, Tameez writes of a Harvard educated White New Englander who marshalled erudition and eloquence against rank racism like Martin Luther King and James Baldwin--a century before. Tameez's powerful biography also reminds us of the price Sumner paid for the hope of a multiracial democracy, at the hands of white supremacy, on the eve of the Civil War, and reminds us of the price to be paid today." --Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School, former President of the NAACP, "Few American lives from the past speak to our present as self-evidently as Charles Sumner's, which makes Zaakir Tameez's choice to retrieve him from forgetfulness and misinterpretation so inspired and inspirational. By placing Sumner in its own time, this illuminating portrait is a reminder of the need to grapple with the Constitution and its meaning in our own era -- both learning from the goals and principles that animated him, and imagining how to make them our own." --Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of Liberalism Against Itself "Zaakir Tameez paints a vivid, layered, textured, compelling, timeless, and topical portrait of Charles Sumner. With the rigor of a historian, the prose of a poet, and the sensitivity of an essayist, Tameez writes of a Harvard educated White New Englander who marshalled erudition and eloquence against rank racism like Martin Luther King and James Baldwin--a century before. Tameez's powerful biography also reminds us of the price Sumner paid for the hope of a multiracial democracy, at the hands of white supremacy, on the eve of the Civil War, and reminds us of the price to be paid today." --Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School, former President of the NAACP, "Zaakir Tameez paints a vivid, layered, textured, compelling, timeless, and topical portrait of Charles Sumner. With the rigor of a historian, the prose of a poet, and the sensitivity of an essayist, Tameez writes of a Harvard educated White New Englander who marshalled erudition and eloquence against rank racism like Martin Luther King and James Baldwin--a century before. Tameez's powerful biography also reminds us of the price Sumner paid for the hope of a multiracial democracy, at the hands of white supremacy, on the eve of the Civil War, and reminds us of the price to be paid today." --Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School, Former President of the NAACP

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal973.7114092

Synopsis"A thorough recounting of the great legislator's life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner's legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today." --The New York Times "An excellent book about the courageous Massachusetts senator... Drawing from hundreds of letters, articles and speeches, Mr. Tameez has created a remarkable portrait of a complex man who faced many personal challenges... Charles Sumner is a moving portrayal of a courageous, long-overlooked American who, in the words of one contemporary, 'stood in the vanguard of Freedom.'" --Wall Street Journal A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an adviser to Abraham Lincoln, Sumner helped the Union win the Civil War and ordain the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In a comprehensive but fast-paced narrative, Zaakir Tameez presents Sumner as one of America's forgotten founding fathers, a constitutional visionary who helped to rewrite the post-Civil War Constitution and give birth to modern civil rights law. He argues that Sumner was a gay man who battled with love and heartbreak at a time when homosexuality wasn't well understood or accepted. And he explores Sumner's critical partnerships with the nation's first generation of Black lawyers and civil rights leaders, whose legal contributions to Reconstruction have been overlooked for far too long. An extraordinary achievement of historical and constitutional scholarship, Charles Sumner brings back to life one of America's most inspiring statesmen, whose formidable ideas remain relevant to a nation still divided over questions of race, democracy, and constitutional law.

LC Classification NumberE415.9.S9T36 2025