Erik Larson
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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#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).
“Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The...
“Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the 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. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers...