"The Demon of Unrest": Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War 06:27. The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time.

There may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose history-but-make-it-fun books include “Isaac’s Storm” and “The Devil in the White City ...

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.

Erik Larson’s “The Demon of Unrest” stands against this dynamic, providing a lively and detailed account of the ideas, people and events that precipitated the start of a national tragedy.

Now, the popular historian Erik Larson has written a Civil War story that — as he says in the book’s first paragraphs — was shaped by the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when the U.S. Capitol was ...

Jul. 12—TRAVERSE CITY — Best-selling author Erik Larson visited Traverse City on Thursday to discuss his latest historical thriller — "The Demon of Unrest" — about the dawn of disunion and ...

Erik Larson: As soon as I read that letter, in which the writer expressed his anxiety about the deepening political division in America, I knew “demon of unrest" would be my title.

I’ve gotten the same feeling this summer while reading “The Demon of Unrest,” Erik Larson’s new bestseller about the weeks leading to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

What: Erik Larson talk and book signing. When: 2-3 p.m. Oct 5. Where: University of Illinois-Chicago’s Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago.

Erik Larson, author of “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstre on ...

Erik Larson: As soon as I read that letter, in which the writer expressed his anxiety about the deepening political division in America, I knew “demon of unrest" would be my title.