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.
Crown announced Wednesday that Larson's “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War” will come out April 30.
Larson sets his narrative over a short but momentous time span, from Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 to the firing on Fort Sumter five months later.
Lincoln's primary concern had been about whether the electoral vote count would be disturbed, and then came the grave concern about the inauguration.
Besides “The Devil in the White City,” based in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Larson's books include “The Splendid and the Vile,” “Dead Wake” and “Isaac's Storm.”
Persons:
Erik Larson, Larson, Abraham Lincoln's, Donald Trump, “, Robert Anderson, Edmund Ruffin, Mary Boykin Chesnut, ledgers, it’s, ”
Organizations:
Crown, Fort, U.S, Capitol, Confederate Army
Locations:
White City, ”, Fort Sumter, Virginia, South Carolina, America, Chicago