"Lyons's unequivocal response was to threaten to recognise the Confederacy, thus granting the South the status of a sovereign country, a step towards full independence. This in turn goaded Seward, the bullish Federal Secretary of State, to retaliate: 'Such recognition will mean war! The whole world will be engulfed and revolution will be the harvest.'"
In Literary Review, Saul David reviews Amanda Foreman's A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided.
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