*See photos for small tears in dust jacket and something I call an ink misprint, which is limited to one section of about a dozen pages. All pages intact, binding tight. Did not see any writing in the book. Price takes flaws into account. This swift moving, historically detailed novel by a well-known Cincinnati attorney is a story of how the River Country of Ohio and Kentucky took the road toward Civil War. It is the story of people, villages and towns, during the most crucial period of that region bounded by Maysville and Cincinnati, Chillicothe and Lexington. Historical characters hobnob with fictional: John Anthony Quitman, New York Yankee who became Governor of Mississippi and leader of the most radical pro-slavery faction; Henry Clay, the great Pacificator; Ulysses S. Grant, the young lieutenant in Taylor's army on the Rio Grande.