America in 1857

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America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

Author: Kenneth M. Stampp
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused wide-spread unemployment. Stampp’s intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster.
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