The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-61 by Allan Nevins

The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-61

Allan Nevins

532 pages first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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"Violence was an American tradition," Allan Nevins reminds us at the beginning of this chronicle of the eve of the Civil War. On 10/16/1859 John Brown & 17 of his followers seized the armory & arsenal at Harper's Ferry. They'd counted on a...

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