A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, The End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
A series of great and still resonant sectional debates – the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850 – made America. While these accords formed an imperfect republic, or ‘a house divided,’ as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But in 1854, this three-generations arrangement suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leading, as David Brown explores in riveting detail, to a fatal break in the Union.
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