"The Demon of Unrest": Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time.

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Erik Larson's latest history book examines the events leading up to the Civil War, and some of the people involved, concluding the conflagration was not inevitable.

Maybe Erik Larson Should Have Left the Civil War Alone In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.

James Buchanan hands off the presidency to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War looms in "The Demon of Unrest," the latest from "The Devil in the White City" author Erik Larson.

137 NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by Erik Larson, widely known for the best-selling “The Devil in the White City,” is a work of Civil War history inspired in part by current events.

Erik Larson tells the story of the national crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln’s victory in November 1860.

The full title of Erik Larson’s 2003 narrative nonfiction classic is The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, and it manages to deliver all that ...

In The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil War, drawing parallels to today's political climate ...