The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2013/419 pages
rating: 8 / historical fiction

There are widely varying opinions about the sanity, mission and effects of John Brown who escalated the pre-war tensions of the Civil War to the point there was really no avoiding it.  Some say he was mad,  others say he was a visionary – there is a considerable amount known about his life outside his head but inside? Well,  that may always be a puzzle.  >>>> MORE >>>>