Books by John L. Myers

Deals with the life of Henry Wilson, one of the important figures of the middle third of the 19th Century, till the time of the Civil War. Among this biography's concerns are the antislavery movement, economic development, the rise of a working class politcian in an aristocratic-controlled state, prohibition, and Massachusetts state history.

Already a leader of the Republican party when the Civil War began, Henry Wilson had distinguished himself as the most important Congressional figure on military and antislavery and pro-black legislation during the war.