
The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in US Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union. The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States,...

The "stimulating, richly informed" ( The Wall Street Journal ) story behind the Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union on the eve of the Civil War--"original in concept, stylish in execution...provides everything history readers want....The characters seem as vivid, human,...

