Michael Fitzgibbon Holt

Professor Holt's book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War.

The Political Crisis of the 1850s

This monumental history of the Whig Party and of the United States in the decades before the Civil War constitutes "one of the most important books on 19th-century politics ever written" (William Gienapp, Harvard University).

Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War

The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party

David Herbert Donald

Jean H. Baker

Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction--originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald--is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.

Michael Fitzgibbon Holt

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