Full name: Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War

Author: Steve Sheinkin Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction, War/Military, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781596433205 9781250075789 1596433205 1250075785

May 22, 1856: A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA WALKS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over remarks Sumner made slamming senators who supported slavery in Kansas. Brooks lifted his cane to beat Sumner, and here the action in the book stops, so that Steve Sheinkin can explain just where this confrontation started. In the process, he unravels the complicated string of events - the small things, the personal ones, the big issues- that led to The Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out. "Two Miserable Presidents" is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Similar books: The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin Bomb by Steve Sheinkin Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone Which Way to the Wild West? by Steve Sheinkin Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn MacDonald Black Potatoes by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Blizzard! by Jim Murphy The Secret War by Max Hastings When Paris Went Dark by Ronald C. Rosbottom D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop