The Demon Of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln America’s Road To Civil War Erik Larson William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Internationally Bestselling Author Of Splendid And Vile Brings To Life Pivotal Five Months Between Election Abraham Lincoln Start Civil War—A Slow-Burning Crisis That Finally Tore A Deeply Divided Nation In Two On November 6 1860 Became Fluky Victor Tight Race For President Country Was Bitterly At Odds Southern Extremists Were Moving Ever Closer Destroying Union With One State After Another Seceding Powerless Stop Them Slavery Fuelled Conflict But Somehow Passions North South Came Focus Lonely Federal Fortress Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter Master Storyteller Erik Larson Offers Gripping Account Chaotic Lincoln’s Confederacy’s Shelling – Period Marked By Tragic Errors Miscommunications Enflamed Egos Craven Ambitions Personal Tragedies Betrayals Himself Wrote Trials These ‘So Great Could I Have Anticipated Would Not Believed It Possible Survive Them’ Heart This Suspense-Filled Narrative Are Major Robert Anderson Sumter’s Commander Former Slave Owner Sympathetic Loyal Edmund Ruffin Vain Bloodthirsty Radical Who Stirs Secessionist Ardour Every Opportunity Mary Boykin Chesnut Wife Prominent Planter Conflicted Over Both Marriage Seeing Parallels Middle All Is Overwhelmed Battling His Duplicitous Secretary William Seward As He Tries Desperately Avert War Fears Inevitable Will Eventually Kill 750 000 Americans Drawing Diaries Secret Communiques Ledgers Plantation Records Gives Us Political Horror Story Captures Forces Led America Brink Dark Reminder We Often Don’t See Cataclysm Coming Until It’s Too Late Σελίδες: 592 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm