American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

“Alan Taylor is a formidable historian and masterly writer.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review

In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, Mexico, and Canada—all tra...