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

9780679447474: Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
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Examines events leading up to the Civil War, from Lincoln's 1860 election, through Southern threats to secede, to the fall of Fort Sumter

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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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Examines the extraordinary events that led up to the Civil War, from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory, through governmental gridlock, Southern threats to secede, and the machinations of an ambitious William Steward, to the fall of Fort Sumter. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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  • PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0679447474
  • ISBN 13 9780679447474
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages496
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