04688cam a2200673 4500 1297480003 TxAuBib 20240603120000.0 ||||||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] : A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Crown, 2024. us history. US Presidents. president. The Civil War. american history. American Civil War. Presidents. Civil War. 19th century history. Abraham Lincoln. Civil War history. United States History. History. civil war books. history books. erik larson. American history books. abraham lincoln books. presidential biographies. biographies of famous people. new york times best sellers. erik larson books. american civil war books. civil war book. Erik Larsen. civil war books for adults. books by erik larson. demon of unrest. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2884kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • The 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 in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).</b><br /> <br /> <b>“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-06-03 20:00:03. 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) TXKYP