Robert W. Merry, a former Washington, D.C., journalist and publishing executive, is the author of five books on American history. His next book, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849– 1861, is due out from Simon & Schuster in July 2024.
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