About the Author

Bruce Levine is James G. Randall Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of Civil War, and is co-author of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society.

Reviews

..no one since Robert F. Durden...has examined this broader issue with the kind of systematic and detailed attention that Bruce Levine provides in this slim but elegant book...Levine is thoughtful, authoritative and convincing. Civil War Times