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100	1		_aLarson, Erik, _d1954- _eauthor _95398
245	1	4	_aThe demon of unrest : _ba saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War / _cErik Larson
246	3	0	_aSaga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bCrown, _c[2024]
300			_axiv, 565 pages : _bmap ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aDark magic -- A boat in the dark -- Part 1. The best of all worlds -- Part 2. Treachery in the wind -- Part 3. Precipice -- Part 4. Journey -- Part 5. Coercion -- Part 6. Collision -- Part 7. Fire! -- 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..."-- _cProvided by publisher
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865 _912543
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham _d1809-1865. _2sears _912543
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _xElection _y1860 _917133
650		7	_aPresidents _zUnited States _xElection. _2sears _917134
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xCauses _917135
651		0	_aFort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) _xSiege, 1861 _917136
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1857-1861 _917137
651		6	_aÉtats-Unis _xPolitique et gouvernement _y1857-1861. _0(CaQQLa)201-0052235 _917138
651		7	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1861-1865, Civil War _xCauses. _2sears _917139
651		7	_aFort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) _2sears _917140
651		7	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government. _2sears _99067
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLarson, Erik, 1954- _tDemon of unrest. _bFirst edition _dNew York : Crown, [2024] _z9780385348751 _w(DLC) 2024008291
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