Description: This sale includes an AUTOGRAPHED COPY of The Demon of Unrest, SIGNED by the author, Erik Larson, in the hardcover edition! Item is brand new! We ship same or next business day!The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War--a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.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.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."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 both. 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.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.
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: Baird, Texas
End Time: 2024-11-07T01:04:41.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed By: Erik Larson
Signed: Yes
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 2-3, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Under 2 Years
Book Title: Demon of Unrest : a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Item Length: 9.5in
Item Height: 1.4in
Item Width: 6.3in
Author: Erik Larson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 30.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
