A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's -breathtakingly original- (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. -Capatious and] buzzing with ideas.- --The Boston Globe
Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner

In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in...