Description: David M. Potter s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War. Civil War History The magnum opus of a great American historian. NewsweekNow in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David Potter s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of antebellum America offers an indispensible analysis of the causes of the war between the states. The Journal of Southern History calls Potter s incisive account, modern scholarship s most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War, and the New York Times Book Review hails it as profound and original . History in the grand tradition. "
Brief description:
David M. Potter (1910-1971) was a professor of history at Yale and Stanford universities. He was posthumously awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Impending Crisis, which his Stanford colleague Don Fehrenbacher completed and edited.
Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case, and edited the Library of America's two-volume collection of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings.
Review Quotes:
"The classic study of antebellum America" - American Prospect
"Profound and original. The Impending Crisis is history in the grand tradition." - Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review
"The magnum opus of a great American historian." - Newsweek
"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." - Andrew Delbanco, Wall Street Journal
"Modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War." - Lacy K. Ford, Journal of Southern History
"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War." - Civil War History