Description
The second volume of the "Road to Disunion" series, "Secessionist Triumphant 1854-1861, " together with "The South versus the South: How Southern Anti-Confederates Shaped the Course of the Civil War" completes a trilogy of books, offering a major reinterpretaton of the causes of the Civil War and of Confederate defeat. The reinterpretation, written in the epic narrative style and replete with rare photographs, is as accessible to nonscholars as to scholars.