| The Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson 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 simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. |
Good storyteller. Looking forward to it.
Postscript: Two very good “prequels” to this new Larson book that would make a great trilogy on the run up to the Civil War are UT historian H.W. Brands’s:
- Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
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