The Road to Disunion, Volume I

William Freehling is Singletary Professor of the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. His first book, Prelude to Civil War, won both an Allan Nevins and a Bancroft Prize and is recognized as one of the most significant studies of the Civil War era published in the past three decades.

"Freehling has struck as powerful blow for history as narrative art in this remarkable recounting of the southern secession movement up to 1854."--George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University. "The major work of scholarship by the author of Prelude to the Civil War.... Will interest readers with its brilliant evocation of the antebellum South." --Publisher's Weekly"A complex, challenging reassessment of southern motives and movements from the birth of the American nation to the Kansas-Nebraska Act...Dense and idiosyncratic...an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly reconstruction of southern history..." --Kirkus Reviews