Название: Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War
Автор: Paul Starobin
Издательство: PublicAffairs
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English
The tea has been thrown overboard-the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." —Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition—or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow. In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns.