A House Divided

The road to the Second Civil War begins here.

Winston Churchill described the first Civil War as, “the noblest and least avoidable of all of the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.” The same cannot be said of a second. A Second Civil War would be, as Churchill said of the Second World War, an unnecessary war.

In The Blast of War, A Land War in Asia, and A Thousand Points of Light, Adam Yoshida told the story of how today’s regional conflicts, if left unchecked, could spiral into a Third World War. Now, with A House Divided, Adam Yoshida begins a new series where the present lassitude of the West leads inevitably to a Second Civil War.

In A House Divided, the United States is set on a road that will lead inevitably to war, as foreign events bring the country to the edge of bankruptcy and a degenerate President tramples upon the Constitution in a desperate effort to maintain his political standing.

Meanwhile, to the north, the same economic pressures that are driving America towards a deadly rendezvous with destiny blow apart the more-fragile Canadian federation, providing a preview of the carnage that awaits Americans if war cannot be avoided. Elsewhere, in America itself, the atmosphere of tension drives deranged men to dangerous acts of fanaticism that threaten to bring on the cataclysm that they seek to avoid.

There are disparate and desperate patriots determined to save America, but can their ambitions be reconciled with love of country or is the American republic as doomed as the Roman one before it?

With A House Divided, Adam Yoshida launches a new series that seeks to explore what could trigger a Second Civil War, how it would be fought, and what the final result would be.

About the Author:

Adam Teiichi Yoshida is a columnist and blogger whose work has been published in multiple forums, including the National Post, Washington Times, Insight Magazine, and The American Thinker. He is the author of “The Blast of War”, “A Land War in Asia,” and “A Thousand Points of Light”, which have been collected as “The Third World War: A Narrative History.”