Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Introduced by James M. McPherson ISBN: 978-1-59853-086-5 552 pp. / $8.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $7.16

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When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he greeted her as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” He was exaggerating only slightly. First published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year and brought home the evils of slavery more dramatically than any abolitionist tract possibly could. With its boldly drawn characters, violent reversals of fortune, and unabashed sentimentality, Stowe’s work remains one of the great polemical novels of American literature, a book with the emotional impact of a round of cannon fire.

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, and most recently, Abraham Lincoln.