The Impending Crisis, 1848 1861
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060905248 (0060905247)
Pages no: 638
Edition language: English
Series: The New American Nation Series
Henry Steele Commager introduces this posthumous edition of Potter’s magnum opus (completed by Fehrenbacher) by praising Potter’s ability to see that although “slavery was indeed the overshadowing problem of the decade,” it seems not to have “monopolized the politics of the decade as it now tends to...