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Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains modern scholarship\'s most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War ( Journal of Southern History )..
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.
Potter\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the classic study of of antebellum America ( American Prospect ). -- Civil War History David M.
Potter\'s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.
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