A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

This book brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War - a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink--a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late.                     592 pages  hc

Publishers Weekly  - *Starred Review