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The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861

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The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
First edition
Author	David M. Potter (completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
Genre	history
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1976
Publication place	US
Pages	672
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History
ISBN	9780061319297

The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 is a 1976 nonfiction book by American historian David M. Potter, who had died in 1971. The book was completed by fellow Stanford University professor Don E. Fehrenbacher and published in 1977 by Harper & Row. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History.^[1]

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^ "Deaths". The Washington Post. December 21, 1997. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

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