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100 1 _aLarson, Erik,
_d1954-
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe demon of unrest :
_ba saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War /
_cErik Larson
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bCrown,
_c[2024]
300 _axiv, 565 pages :
_billustrations;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aDark magic (a note to readers) -- A boat in the dark -- Part 1. The best of all worlds (1807-1860) -- Part 2. Treachery in the wind (November 1860-January 1861) -- Part 3. Precipice (January 1-February 11) -- Part 4. Journey (February 11-March 4, 1861) -- Part 5. Coercion (March 4-March 29, 1861) -- Part 6. Collision (March 29-April 9, 1861) -- Part 7. Fire! (April 10-April 23, 1861) -- Epilogue: A toast -- Coda: Blood among the tulip trees
520 _a"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. ...[An] 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 ... 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 them. 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..."--
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600 1 0 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xElection
_y1860
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCauses
651 0 _aFort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
_xSiege, 1861
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1857-1861
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