A Hell of a Storm

“Insightful.” — The Wall Street Journal * “Noteworthy…readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events.” — Booklist 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 of the United States was shaped by a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional