Lincoln's First Crisis: Fort Sumter and the Betrayal of the President - Hardcover

by William Bruce Johnson (Author)

William Bruce Johnson combines thorough research with a litigator's analysis and a storyteller's eye for meaningful detail to construct a new narrative of the Fort Sumter crisis, culminating in a new theory of why the Civil War began as it did, and how, if the new president's orders had been properly carried out, it might have been averted.

Author Biography

William Bruce Johnson is an attorney and author specializing in U.S. history. In addition to writings on legal topics, he is the author of The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal (2006) and Miracles & Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood (2008).