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Blurb: "An excellent contribution from one of the foremost historians of violence in America." - Robert Brent Toplin in The Journal of American History
Strain of Violence deals with the challenge to respectable society posed by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Major contributions include the chapters on violence and the American Revolution and on black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960s.
Brown pays special attention to America's unique vigilante tradition and shows that the mobs who took the law into their own hands were almost invariably "law and order" conservatives, a significant fact in understanding the Watergate offenders as well as the foreign and domestic misdeeds of the C.I.A. Brown also probes in detail two violence-prone regions: secession-leader South Carolina's old Back Country; and ultra-violent central Texas, the homeland of the President, Lyndon B. Johnson, who spearheaded the massive American warfare in Vietnam. Brown's look into the past has the most profound implications for our present-and our future.
"This is a book basic to any future work on the history; politics, and sociology of violence in America."
Richard Slotkin in The Western Historical Quarterly
"[An] enormous achievement. The volume is the most important scholarly analysis of our violent past that has been produced to date, and, as such, should be of interest to both lawyers and the general public.
James W. Ely, Jr., in The Columbia Law Review
Author and editor of many books and articles, Richard Maxwell Brown is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and in 1968-1969 was a consultant to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
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