The Road to Disunion —— Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

----- 分离之路，第2卷：（美）分离主义者得胜1854-1861年

ISBN: 9780195058154 出版年：2008 页码：624 Freehling, William W Oxford University Press

Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war. He shows in particular how the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis and that, at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, this is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union.