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In broad terms, we can understand the rise of the secession movement as the collapse of the middle

ground. The middle ground had to be destroyed.

The idea of secession it would appear would be crazy in say the early 1850s.

I think in some sense they lost their faculty of reason.

There's a part of this story that I just find. lost their faculty of reason.

There's a part of this story that I just find so interesting because we're going all the

way back to 1860, but you see the role of the media. My guest today is Paul Steribin. He is a frequent contributor to the

Atlantic and the New Republic and was Moscow Bureau Chief for Business Week and

his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

He is the author of Madness Rules the Hour.

Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War, from Public Affairs Press.

Paul, welcome to the program.

Thanks, Bruce.

Great to be here.

Charleston, South Carolina, the subject of your book was and is a beautiful city, pleasant

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