Jim Lane

Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan is historian Robert Collins’s revelatory biography of one of America’s most controversial politicians.   As the life of US senator James Lane unfolded on the Kansas frontier, so did his saintly and dastardly deeds. Some called him a murderer while others affectionately called him a good politician. Carefully preserving the character of the misunderstood senator, this book tells the untold and largely forgotten story of the controversial Civil War-era f