Impending Crisis, The

"Profound and original. The Impending Crisis is history in the grand tradition." - Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review

"With a rare combination of nuance and narrative drive, David Potter. . . vividly portrays a nation coming apart. . . . Potter writes with such immediacy that events long past feel like the present unfolding before our eyes." - Andrew Delbanco, Wall Street Journal

"Modern scholarship's most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War." - Lacy K. Ford, Journal of Southern History

"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 classic study of antebellum America" - American Prospect

"The magnum opus of a great American historian." - Newsweek