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, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston
Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred
Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more.
As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a
political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious
approach, willing to wait and see what Lincoln would
do--especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures
against the South. But 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, The Road to Disunion is the first book to fully
document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold
of the secessionist issue and, aided by a series of fortuitous
events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides
compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them
members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he
evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures
the drama of one of America's most important--and least
understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning
Secessionists at Bay, which was hailed as "the most important
history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a
major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A
compelling, vivid portrait of the final years of the antebellum
South, The Road to Disunion will stand as animportant history of
its subject.
"This sure-to-be-lasting work--studded with pen portraits and
consistently astute in its appraisal of the subtle cultural and
geographic variations in the region--adds crucial layers to
scholarship on the origins of America's bloodiest conflict."
--The Atlantic Monthly
"Splendid, painstaking account...and so a work of history reaches
into the past to illuminate the present. It is light we need, and
we owe Freehling a debt for shedding it."
--Washington Post
"A masterful, dramatic, breathtakingly detailed narrative."
--The Baltimore Sun
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