Publisher's Synopsis
This is the story of the years before the Civil War, when James Buchanan "led" the nation. James Buchanan was a "Doughface" who did not do a whole lot to stop the coming of the Civil War. But how could he have stopped it? This is a general history of the United States in the years before the war. The South seceded under Buchanan, but they really seceded against the President-Elect.