Impending Crisis

<p><strong>David M. Potter's magisterial <em>The Impending Crisis </em>is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War. --<em>Civil War History</em></strong></p><p>David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>The Impending Crisis</em> is the classic study of of antebellum America (<em>American Prospect</em>). 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 <em>The Impending Crisis</em> remains modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War (<em>Journal of Southern History</em>).</p>