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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 BN_Top_100 The Final Problem is a"Alan Taylor is a formidable historian and masterly writer." Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two time Pulitzer Prize winner. In a fast paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty year period in which North America's three largest countries the