by Robert V. Bruce (Author)

Not simply a story of a year from our past but a dramatic account of a social and political uprising that became a crisis in the course of American development. "A spectacular story."--New York Times.

Author Biography

Robert V. Bruce is Professor of History at Boston University. He is also the author of Lincoln and the Tools of War and The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876, for which he won the Pulitzer Price in 1988.