A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

David S. Brown

352 pages • first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history
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The fascinating story of how a new law in 1854—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.The history o...

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