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The Impending Crisis:

America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
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HarperCollins, Mar 15, 1977 - History - 672 pages

David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis 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, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.

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Review: The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (The New American Nation Series)

User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the ... Read full review

Review: The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 (The New American Nation Series)

User Review  - Greg Fanoe - Goodreads

This presents mostly a legislative history of the US pre-Civil War, with very little space given to economic situation, cultural issues, etc. Also, it almost exclusively focuses on the slavery issue ... Read full review

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About the author (1977)

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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TitleThe Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
Harper colophon books
Harper torchbooks
The New American Nation Series
AuthorDavid M. Potter
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarperCollins, 1977
ISBN0061319295, 9780061319297
Length672 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  
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