{"product_id":"9780061319297","title":"The Impending Crisis : America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David M. Potter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“David M. Potter’s magisterial \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis \u003c\/em\u003eis the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —\u003cem\u003eCivil War History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e is \"the classic study of of antebellum America\" (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Prospect\u003c\/em\u003e). 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e remains \"modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War\" (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Profound and original. \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e is history in the grand tradition.”\u003cbr\u003e“With a rare combination of nuance and narrative drive, David Potter... vividly portrays a nation coming apart. ... Potter writes with such immediacy that events long past feel like the present unfolding before our eyes.”\u003cbr\u003e“Modern scholarship’s most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War.”\u003cbr\u003e“David M. Potter’s magisterial \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.”\u003cbr\u003e“The classic study of antebellum America”\u003cbr\u003e“The magnum opus of a great American historian.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061319297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41074815729870,"sku":"9780061319297","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061319297.jpg?v=1652153389","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061319297","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}