MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt & Co., 384 pp.)
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz (“Confederates in the Attic”) offers a sharp portrait of John Brown, the defiant abolitionist whose desperate 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry stunned Americans and perhaps changed – or at least accelerated – the course of US history. (October)