When bestselling author Erik Larson appears in Harrisburg next month, he’ll discuss his latest historical nonfiction book “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of ...
Erik Larson, author of “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstre on ...
Author Erik Larson, whose latest book centers on five months leading up to the American Civil War, had said many times he would never write a book about the Civil War. After all, about 60,000 books ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In just five agonizing months — from Abraham Lincoln’s election as president on Nov. 6, 1860, until the first shot fired in the ...
"THE DEMON OF UNREST: A SAGA OF HUBRIS, HEARTBREAK AND HEROISM AT THE DAWN OF THE CIVIL WAR" by Erik Larson (Crown, 592 pages, $35). Most middle-school students are taught that the first shot of the ...
In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil. Maj. Robert Anderson in 1860.Credit...George S. Cook, via ...