First Edition.   Volume, though New, has been rated Like New because of a black more in the outside of the page bottoms.  See photograph.  Slight rubbing on the back of the volume's dust jacket.  

In Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877, Brenda Wineapple provides a sweeping narrative of the mid-19th-century United States. She explores the period from the end of the Mexican-American War through the Civil War and the eventual collapse of Reconstruction.

Rather than focusing solely on military maneuvers, Wineapple centers the "soul" of the country, examining how Americans defined themselves during a time of radical transformation and intense division.