num_pages: 638
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.” 
language: English
title: The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
titlecomplete: The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
characters: John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay, Franklin Pierce, William Lloyd Garrison, Millard Fillmore, Stephen A. Douglas, Zachary Taylor, John Brown, James Buchanan
genres: Historical, American, History, American History, Military History, American Civil War, Politics, The United States Of America, Civil War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2198
series: The New American Nation Series
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History
publisher: Harper Perennial