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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 - Paperback

by David M. Potter
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Availability:In StockContributor:David M. PotterPublish date:2011-03-15Pages:672
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061319297ISBN-10:61319295UPC:9780061319297Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Logic, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCYHMBZ2JH

"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is 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 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. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains "modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War" (Journal of Southern History).

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061319297ISBN-10:61319295UPC:9780061319297Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Logic, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCYHMBZ2JH
Potter, David M.: -

David M. Potter (1910-1971) was a professor of history at Yale and Stanford universities. He was posthumously awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Impending Crisis, which his Stanford colleague Don Fehrenbacher completed and edited.

Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case, and edited the Library of America's two-volume collection of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings.

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