TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,William J.
TI  - We have the war upon us: the onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 
SN  - 9781400042005 (hbk.)
AV  - E440.5 .C77 2012
U1  - 973.7/11 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Secession
KW  - Southern States
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1857-1861
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Causes
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-315) and index; Prologue : "Is this not a remarkable spectacle?" -- "The future is . . . shrouded in the very blackness of darkness" -- "We need a statesman of nerve to meet the terrible crisis" -- "The prospects for the country are gloomy" -- "Up with polly, down with wisdom is the order of the day" -- "You can still this storm" -- "Fraternity is the element of the union" -- "The quicksands that environ our ship of state" -- Epilogue : "Both sides marching to fields of blood"
N2  - Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability
ER  -