LEADER 03097nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910462124003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-74233-0 010 $a0-300-18263-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300182637 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276608 035 $a(OCoLC)819378802 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10622969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11467426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10749309 035 $a(PQKB)10340611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421080 035 $a(DE-B1597)486306 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300182637 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276608 100 $a20120518d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Brown's spy$b[electronic resource] $ethe adventurous life and tragic confession of John E. Cook /$fSteven Lubet 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-18049-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aKansas -- Harper's Ferry -- Insurrection -- Escape -- Jailed -- Charlestown -- Confession -- Intrigues -- Defense -- Repentance -- Eternity -- Forgiveness. 330 $aJohn Brown's Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer-as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years, he studied law in Connecticut, fought border ruffians in Kansas, served as an abolitionist mole in Virginia, took white hostages during the Harper's Ferry raid, and almost escaped to freedom. For ten days after the infamous raid, he was the most hunted man in America with a staggering. 1 ,000 bounty on his head. Tracking down the unexplored circumstances of John Cook's life and disastrous end, Steven Lubet is the first to uncover the full extent of Cook's contributions to Brown's scheme. Without Cook's participation, the author contends, Brown might never have been able to launch the insurrection that sparked the Civil War. Had Cook remained true to the cause, history would have remembered him as a hero. Instead, when Cook was captured and brought to trial, he betrayed John Brown and named fellow abolitionists in a full confession that earned him a place in history's tragic pantheon of disgraced turncoats. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical$2bisacsh 607 $aHarpers Ferry (W. Va.)$xHistory$yJohn Brown's Raid, 1859 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. 676 $a973.7/116092 676 $aB 700 $aLubet$b Steven$0848027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462124003321 996 $aJohn Brown's spy$92473033 997 $aUNINA