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

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

“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

“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek

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