The Crisis: Restored Classics to Go Edition

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Stephen Brice has made his way into Missouri society as a lawyer and newspaper writer, but his private hopes and public convictions are increasingly tested by the nation's drift toward crisis. At the St. Louis Agricultural Fair and in the charged season of Lincoln's rising influence, he moves among steamboat excursions, conventions, and political gatherings where Southern pride, Union loyalty, and personal rivalry collide. His encounters with Clarence Colfax, Miss Puss Russell, Anne Brinsmade, and Virginia Carvel deepen the emotional stakes, revealing old resentments, hidden affection, and the bitter cost of sectional division. Virginia's return from Europe briefly restores the glitter of family and society, even as her hostility toward Stephen and the Union hardens. At the same time, Carvel & Company is being transformed by Eliphalet Hopper's cold efficiency, alarming Colonel Carvel and drawing sharp warnings from Ephum and Captain Lige Brent. Amid business change, immigrant patriotism, and the drama of the Chicago convention, Stephen discovers both the machinery of politics and the idealism behind it, while his devotion to his mother and his growing seriousness mark him as a man caught between love, duty, and a country on the brink. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
Stephen Brice has made his way into Missouri society as a lawyer and newspaper writer, but his private hopes and public convictions are increasingly tested by the nation's drift toward crisis. At the St. Louis Agricultural Fair and in the charged season of Lincoln's rising influence, he moves amo...

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Winston Churchill was born into the British aristocracy in 1874 and lived a life that moved restlessly between public service, war, politics, and writing, becoming one of the most recognizable figures of the twentieth century. He served as a soldier, war correspondent, cabinet minister, prime minister, and statesman, and throughout it all he sustained a remarkable literary career that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writing is distinguished by its sweeping historical vision, vivid prose, and command of public rhetoric, qualities that helped him shape how generations have understood empire, conflict, leadership, and national destiny. Across his historical and political works, Churchill explored themes of duty, resilience, freedom, and the burden of decision in times of crisis, themes that still resonate in an age marked by instability and debate over leadership. His legacy rests not only in the events he helped steer but also in the way he interpreted them, giving readers a model of history written with urgency, conviction, and dramatic force. Today, Churchill remains essential reading for those interested in modern history, political thought, and the art of persuasive prose, especially readers who are drawn to strong voices, grand historical narratives, and the drama of public life.

Winston Churchill was born into the British aristocracy in 1874 and lived a life that moved restlessly between public service, war, politics, and writing, becoming one of the most recognizable figures of the twentieth century. He served as a soldier, war correspondent, cabinet minister, prime min...

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