We shall be no more : suicide and self-government in the newly United States / Richard Bell.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2012.

332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-317) and index.

Suicide and the state of the union -- The sorrows of young readers -- Saving sinking strangers -- Wounds in the belly of the state -- The threshold of heaven -- The problem of slave resistance.