04620cam a2200661 4500 1264380253 TxAuBib 20240502120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385348751 0385348754 B0CDKLBD2W Amazon 4ededd90-1bcf-4bbb-bed6-1478c288b9a9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10046616 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Larson, Erik. The Demon of Unrest [Libby eBook] : A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Crown, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2884kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. 19th century american history. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. civil war books for adults. presidential biographies. american civil war books. American history books. United States History. abraham lincoln books. 19th century history. books by erik larson. American Civil War. Civil War history. erik larson books. american history. Abraham Lincoln. civil war books. demon of unrest. civil war book. US Presidents. The Civil War. history books. erik larson. Erik Larsen. us history. Presidents. president. Civil War. History. HTML:<b>The #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Splendid and the Vile</i> brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.</b><br /> <b><br /> A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant</i></b><br /> On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.<br /> Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”<br /> At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.<br /> Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-05-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4ededd90-1bcf-4bbb-bed6-1478c288b9a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4ededd90-1bcf-4bbb-bed6-1478c288b9a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4ededd90-1bcf-4bbb-bed6-1478c288b9a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)