"The greatest American historical biography yet written." - Merrill D. Peterson, in John Brown: The Legend Revisited (2004)"Villard captured the volatile contest between fact and interpretation that plagues every student of Brown...an impressively measured and thoughtful biography." -John Brown Still Lives (2011)"Villard...pitilessly expose[d] Brown's savagery at Pottawatomie...praise[d] his humanitarian aims." - John Brown, Abolitionist (2009)

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949) was owner and editor of both the New York Evening Post, and The Nation during the first half of the twentieth century. His career as a pacifist paralleled the buildup of the American military from a minor auxiliary of the state to the "military- industrial complex" that dominates the economy of today. Originally published in 1983, this volume contains an introduction, followed by a collection of articles, selected letters and excerpts f...

"The present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper's Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put forth the essential truths of history as far as ascertainable, and to judge Brown, his followers ...

"The greatest American historical biography yet written." - Merrill D. Peterson, in John Brown: The Legend Revisited (2004)"Villard captured the volatile contest between fact and interpretation that plagues every student of Brown...an impressively measured and thoughtful biography." -John Brown Still Lives (2011)"Villard...pitilessly expose[d] Brown's savagery at Pottawatomie...praise[d] his humanitarian aims." -

Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872October 1, 1949) was an American journalist. Villard graduated from Harvard University in 1893. In 1894, he began to write regularly for the New York Evening Post and The Nation. The Negro in the Regular Army is an essay of Villards describing African American soldiers contribution to the United States Military.