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Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss

14. "MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War," by Tony Horwitz

MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt & Co., 384 pp.)
Bestselling author Tony Horwitz (鈥淐onfederates in the Attic鈥) offers a sharp portrait of John Brown, the defiant abolitionist whose desperate 1859 raid on Harper鈥檚 Ferry stunned Americans and perhaps changed 鈥 or at least accelerated 鈥 the course of US history. (October)

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