Der Weg zur Trennung, Band 2: Der Triumph der Sezessionisten, 1854-1861

Author/Contributor(s):	Freehling, William W
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	10/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war. He shows in particular how the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis and that, at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, this is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union.