02229cam a2200337 i 4500 1341182091 TxAuBib 20240625120000.0 231027s2024||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780593861837 paperback 0593861833 paperback (OCoLC)1428821758 TxAuBib rda Larson, Erik, author. The demon of unrest [LARGE PRINT] : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War / Erik Larson. Large print edition. New York, NY : Random House Large Print, 2024. ©2024. 880 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. A boat in the dark -- The best of all worlds -- Treachery in the wind -- Precipice -- Journey -- Coercion -- Collision -- Fire! -- A toast -- Blood among the tulip trees. "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. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers [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'"-- Provided by publisher of regular-sized print edition. 20240625. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Large type books. Large print books. TXKAR