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

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

“Profound and original, The Impending Crisis is history in the grand tradition.” –Eric Foner

"Magisterial. . . 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 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 iss...