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

David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis<\/em> 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<\/em> remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.<\/p><\/P>"