Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War (1997)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0679447474

Condition: Very Good

There are scuffs along the edges of the dust jacket, and a stain on the flyleaf. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

This book unfurls from Springfield, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., to Charleston, South Carolina, and Montgomery, Alabama—culminating with the portentous shots finally fired in April—Mr. Klein describes the social, cultural, and political currents of mid-nineteenth-century America, and the reader comes to realize how close the United States came to collapsing, and how important leadership is in critical times. - from the inside flap