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Summary: "The'rebellion' was an interesting, revealing moment in American history, which Erik J. Chaput establishes clearly and thoroughly in his book."-The Historian "...based on wide and deep research into archives; Dorr's writings, correspondence and diaries; newspapers and political tracts; and court records and cases. One of its great strengths is that it shows why the Dorr Rebellion was more than a tempest in Rhode Island's teapot. It had national implications and repercussions, influencing sectional politics, the controversy over slavery, and political party development in the 1840s and 1850s."-J. Stanley Lemons, HNN: History News Network "Though certainly a glut for Rhode Island regionalists, Chaput's book is no provincial monograph. Using Thomas Dorr's 1842 near-overthrow of Rhode Island's government as a centrifuge, "The People's Martyr" seeks to better understand constitutional intent, or at least how difficult that endeavor can be. In addition, it stations Dorr's rebellion as critical to fomenting the Civil War, and while most historians are gifted researchers, Chaput earns top tier accolades by looming his acquired facts into an engaging story relevant to both Dorr's time and our own."-The Providence Journal "Successfully shows how Dorr's Rebellion posed large questions about the nature of our democracy, and had an impact beyond what conventional wisdom indicates. The fact that it's a compelling story only adds to the pleasure of reliving this piece of regional history."-The Sun Chronicle "Erik J. Chaput's deeply researched, beautifully written, insightful, and revelatory biography of Dorr's populist opposition to the state's oligarchy and, by extension, to the government that it controlled proves conclusively that the ideology underpinning his rebellion had far-reaching implications for the nation in grappling with the meaning and legacy of |
