1587 The Missouri Controversy 1819-1821, by Glover Moore (read 15 Sep 1980) This is a really good book and told me lots of things I did not previously know about the Missouri Compromise. As the summary well puts it: "In short, the Missouri Controversy was the first occasion on which all of the strands in the fabric of North-South sectionalism was brought together and paraded before the public in magnitudinous proportions. This was the first full-scale dress rehearsal (with nothing omitted) for the great sectional conflict which was to dominate the last two decades of the ante-bellum era...The events of the forties, fifties, and sixties were unmistakenly foreshadowed by the Missouri Controversy. Here, clearly, was the 'knell of the Union', the title page to the great tragic volume." Excellent book. ( )