The Political Crisis of the 1850s
- ISBN-10
- 039395370X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393953701
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
Description
Professor Holt's book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War.
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