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

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

by Maury Klein
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

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

by Maury Klein

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Overview

“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer 

In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled, and finally plunged into the most destructive war this country has ever faced. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Maury Klein provides fascinating new insights into the period from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the shelling of Fort Sumter.

Klein brings the key players in the tragedy unforgettably to life: from the vacillating lame-duck President Buchanan to the taciturn, elusive, and relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln; from Secretary of State Seward carrying on his own private negotiations with the South to Major Robert Anderson sitting in his island fortress awaiting reinforcements. Never has this immensely significant moment in our national story been so intelligently of so spellbindingly related.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307832252
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/01/2013
Series: Vintage Civil War Library
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 721,578
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Maury Klein is renowned as one of the finest historians of American business and economy. He is the author of many books, including A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II; The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rhode Island. Klein lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.
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