

The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns! Harvard Professor David Herbert Donald traces Sumner's life in this Pulitzer-Prize winning classic about a nation careening toward Civil War.
Alcoga0127
Mar 8, 2017
This account of Sumner and his influence on the American political landscape in the 1850s leading up to the outbreak of Civil War sheds a great deal of light on the dichotomy of economic and political divisions which tore our country apart. It filled in a lot of open ended questions I had about the abolitionist movement and its impact of the slavery issue...Compromise was not be obtained any longer because of the emotional nature of enslavement as a way to preserve an economic system and way of life then known.