Eric Larson is a journalist and author of several bestselling books including Thunderstruck, Dead Wake, The Devil in the White City, and In the Garden of Beasts. Acclaimed for bringing life to the mysteries of history, he won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing and in 2016 received the Chicago Public Library's Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Signed Book)
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Signed Book)
Erik Larson is a superstar of blending historical narratives with thriller-esque propulsion and here he weaves a narrative around the Civil War, the central role of Fort Sumter and the eerie similarities between the political landscape then and now. Told in masterful prose that is as fascinating contextually as it is compulsively written, this is history for all readers.