The Mad Dreams of Thaddeus Stevens

Stevens believed that the best monument to honor a life consisted of ever-living mind rather than brass or marble. His colleagues in Congress agreed that he had achieved such honor due to the imprint of his mind on the history of his country; therefore Stevens needed no monuments in words or brass and marble. This book takes its title from the poem that constitutes the book's final chapter. That poem, despite the warnings of Stevens' colleagues, and despite Stevens' own preferred type of mo...