ISBN: 0061319295 9780061319297

Category: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Page count: 672

<p> David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Impending Crisis</i> is the definitive history of antebellum America. 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. Now available in a new edition, <i>The Impending Crisis</i> remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing. </p>