Thickish hardcover book with illustrated dust jacket present, dust jacket is mostly clean with very little surface and extremity wear, book itself is clean inside and outside, top, bottom and foredges are slightly age-yellowed, binding is solid and complete. Overall condition of the book and dust jacket is Very Good - near Very Good +. Please see photos for more information on the condition of the book and dust jacket. 8vo/octavo size at spine, 623 pages, index, large notes section, acknowledgements section, contents pages, introduction, 16 pages of b&w photos, some other b&w photos inserted in text throughout the book, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2008 (2008), stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2008, fifth printing.

A thick hardcover book in nice clean condition, suitable for gifting and collecting, for your American history bookshelf, or your favorite history buff. Book’s subtitled : “ Abraham Lincoln And The Great Secession Winter 1860-1861.” From the dust jacket liner notes: “ One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln At Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln’s election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency - there would be no compromising on slavery or secession of the slave holding states, even at the cost of civil war. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the president-elect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states.”

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