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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War Fiction_Gift_Guide The scene they encounter is"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U. S. Congress. Drawing on an