The Demon of unrest : Abraham Lincoln & America's road to civil war

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The Demon of unrest : Abraham Lincoln & America's road to civil war / Erik Larson. - Lodon : William Collins, 2024. - XIV, [2], 565 stron : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

Author

Larson Erik (1954- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Polityka Władza Wybory prezydenckie Niewolnictwo Wojna domowa Fort Sumter (Charleston) Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

Genre/Form

Reportaż historyczny

Domain

Historia

Książka w języku angielskim. 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 fuelled 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 a gripping 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. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink – a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.

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Bibliografia na stronach 499-511. Indeks.

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