Download or read book The Imperiled Union written by Kenneth M. Stampp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imperiled Union is a major contribution to the literature of the American sectional conflict by Kenneth M. Stampp, author of the classic account of slavery in the South, The Peculiar Institution. The essays collected here -- two written especially for this volume, most of the others substantially revised for this book -- represent the summation of his thinking about the issues and events that produced America's most tragic moment, the Civil War. Book jacket.