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The Impending Crisis : America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Overview
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
"Profound and original, The Impending Crisis is history in the grand tradition." -Eric Foner
"Magisterial. . . The single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War." --Civil War History
David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is "the classic study of antebellum America" (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War:
- Westward expansion
- The divisive issue of slavery
- The Dred Scott decision
- John Brown's uprising
- The ascension of Abraham Lincoln
- And the drama of Southern succession
This riveting and significant historical work remains "modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War" (Journal of Southern History).
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780061319297
- ISBN-10: 0061319295
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: March 1977
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.22 pounds
- Page Count: 672
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