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The Crisis was the best selling book of 1901, and deservedly so. The story covers about fifteen years of American history from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The story captured the tenor of the times of the times, representing well the passions and struggles of the common people preceding and during the Civil War; including the breaking up of families and old friendships.

Even though the writing style was that of the nineteenth century, the book is exceedingly enjoyable and engaging for the modern reader. There are some passages; particularly, those in which Lincoln was a character in the book, which were particularly well written. You could feel the passion the author had for the sixteenth president.

This is a book well worth reading. I had a hard time putting the book down.

Incidentally, this is not the same Winston S. Churchill who became the prime minister of England.