The Fate of Their Country

"Holt’s fascinating study of partisan politics and the territorial slavery issue shows again why he is one of America’s finest pre-civil war historians." —William W. Freehling, author of The Road to Disunion What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcila