Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Hour 1:           How did the British government and society react to the U.S. Civil War and what did both Union and Confederate powers expect from America’s former colonial master as the war heated up? We’ll talk this hour with historian Amanda Foreman, whose book “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War” (Random House, 2012) is now out in paperback.