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Erik Larson The Demon of Unrest (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Demon of UnrestCondition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/09/2024Subtitle: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil WarEAN: 9780008681753ISBN: 9780008681753Publisher: William CollinsDescription: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The 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 in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times). 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 fuelled 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 ardour 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 159mmItem Width: 41mmItem Weight: 270gAuthor: Erik LarsonGenre: BiographyTopic: Law & Politics, Military History, HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Format: Hardback

Release Date: 05/09/2024

Release Year: 2024

Book Title: The Demon of Unrest

Publication Name: The Demon of Unrest

Title: The Demon of Unrest

Subtitle: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

EAN: 9780008681753

ISBN: 9780008681753

Publisher: William Collins

Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Item Height: 240mm

Item Length: 159mm

Item Width: 41mm

Item Weight: 270g

Author: Erik Larson

Genre: Biography

Topic: History

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