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soon troops would invade the north in kentucky and maryland and the european powers were on the verge of stepping into the dispute to force a mediation that would have recognized southern independence. the republican grip on congress was threatened and with it the fate of this huge and historic agenda. how the union was saved from that low point is another story told in my forth coming book. it's an astounding chain of events, but we haven't time for that now. i will give the final word to charles sumner and perhaps the greatest figure of that congress, speaking of misunderstood indi...

pivotal year of american history. 1862 was certainly the most eventful year in american history. perhaps the most misunderstood. the year in which the civil war became a cataclysm. the federal government became a colasses. and yet, suffered the key losses that led to its doom. it was the year that abraham lincoln established his greatness. it was the death nail of american slavery. and it was the forge of the generals who would eventually win the war. then with names like grant, sherman, sheridan, farrugut, thomas. the blueprint of modern america, as we have been talking about here, ...

>> when you decided the list for the contenders, what was your objective? >> to give viewers an alternative school of american political history in particular. it has been observed that the winners write the history books, and that is true, but that means that we are deprived of a another whole story line. even more, at a biographical level, there are 14 people in this series, many of whom, i guarantee, viewers may never have heard of, and all of them, i can guarantee they will find interesting to fascinating. >> do you have somebody in mind who may have been the most important conte...