New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating

SC Congressman Preston Brooks shocked nation when he caned Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. A new biography shows why the ...
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Review: That time a politician was caned and almost killed on the Senate floor

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has proved ...