TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klein,Maury
TI  - Days of defiance: Sumter, secession, and the coming of the Civil War 
SN  - 0679447474 (alk. paper)
AV  - E 471 .K48 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf, Distributed by Random House
KW  - Secession
KW  - Southern States
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1857-1861
KW  - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
KW  - Siege, 1861
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [470]-482) and index; Prologue: Ship of foils -- Part I: The battle for Washington. November. Vox Populi -- Something old -- Something new -- The Senators from South Carolina -- A tale of three cities -- A change of command -- December. The politics of bewilderment -- Turning points -- At the brink -- Part II: The battle over secession. January. War beckons -- War recedes -- The peace puzzle -- February. Farewells and forebodings -- Two journeys -- Plums and nuts -- The waiting game -- Part III: The battle over Fort Sumter. March. Last gasps and first breaths -- Uneasy arrangements -- Decisions and delusions -- The great divide -- April. Ends without means -- April fools -- The good fight -- The price of pride
N2  - This book attempts to tell the story through the eyes of the original disputants, as they saw it at the time. It is not just about the Sumter crisis itself but about what it signified to that generation. It seeks to show what America was in 1860 and what it was becoming, and why certain forces drove her people into deadly and unavoidable conflict
ER  -