Who was John Brown and how did his actions at Harpers Ferry in October of 1859 change America forever? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz, whose book “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War” (Picador, 2012) is out in paperback.
![John Brown and others inside the engine house of the Harper's Ferry Armory just before the US Marines ram through the door.](https://think.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shutterstock_237231835-800x500.jpg)
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