1977 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner
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The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
David M. Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter’s sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive i…