A brilliantly told prequel to Team of Rivals-the first history in six decades of the wild presidential contest that put Abraham Lincoln in the White House and brought the United States to the brink of civil war.
Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. He is the author of five books, including He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America.
Brilliant ... master[s] an incredible range of scholarly and
popular work ... sparkles with insight ... An impressive
accomplishment.
*Reviews in American History on Death or Liberty*
An elegant and seamless narrative
*Woody Holton, University of Richmond, on Death or Liberty*
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