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Name: Ordeal by Fire
Author: James M. McPherson

In *Ordeal by Fire*, historian James M. McPherson investigates the American Civil War of 1861–1865, framing it as the decisive conflict that upheld the United States against dissolution and addressed the unresolved questions of the 1789 Constitution. The work argues that the war determined whether the nation would function as a sovereign federal state or a confederation of sovereign states and confronted the issue of the country’s status as the largest slaveholding nation in the world.

First publish date: 1981

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: James M. McPherson

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