{"product_id":"the-impending-crisis-america-before-the-civil-war-1848-1861-9780061319297","title":"The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861","description":"\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePotter, David M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDavid 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e, which his Stanford colleague Don Fehrenbacher completed and edited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was awarded the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for \u003cem\u003eThe Dred Scott Case\u003c\/em\u003e, and edited the Library of America's two-volume collection of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615066296594,"sku":"9780061319297","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9262500c-bf86-433d-8658-39c2562a024f.jpg?v=1732474578","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-impending-crisis-america-before-the-civil-war-1848-1861-9780061319297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}