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David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession.

It started when a powerful, yet forgotten, sorcerer felt the grip of something vicious and dark rising from its eldrich prison. To stop the unfathomable terror, he assembled a party of unknowing heroes, allured with the promise of a great treasure. As for those he brought together, an extraordinary set of circumstances quickly changed a hunt for treasure into fight for the fate of the world.