ERIC H. WALTHER is associate professor of history at the University of Houston. He is author of The Fire-Eaters and The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s.
[A] valuable biography. . . . A worthwhile and well-researched
addition serving libraries interested in the history of the South
and the coming of the Civil War.--Choice
A major contribution . . . which will be of great interest to
students of the Old South and the Civil War.--North Carolina
Historical Review
A sympathetic and analytical biography of Yancey that reveals as
much about the society and politics of the Deep South as it does
about his own complex and controversial public life.--Louisiana
History
Authoritative.--Wall Street Journal
Gives historians their first close look at this straw man of
secession. . . . The research is in impressive. . . . Scholars will
thank Walther for finally giving them a full portrait of this
intriguing figure.--The Historian
Until now . . . 'the prince of Fire-eaters' has lacked a modern
biography.--Civil War History
Walther delivers an insightful and convincing examination of
William Lowndes Yancey that students of the antebellum South and
the Civil War will greatly appreciate.--H-CivWar
Walther has not only exhaustively explored the sources for Yancey's
life, but he has written a careful and judicious biography of a man
known for his fiery words and actions in the nation's greatest
crisis.--South Carolina Historical Magazine
Whether or not Yancey was a man obsessed, this biography should be
a book possessed.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
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