The Impending Crisis, 1848-61 by David M Potter

The Impending Crisis, 1848-61 by David M Potter

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).

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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ISBN 13	9780061319297
ISBN 10	0061319295
Title	The Impending Crisis, 1848-61
Author	David M Potter
Series	Torchbooks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2011-03-15
Number of pages	638
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