Books by Jay Sexton

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises - not unlike those of the present day - have determined our nation's course from the start

The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its debt held overseas. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work explores a central theme of mid-nineteenth-century foreign relations and a crucial aspect of the Civil War.