The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War John S. Littell It is the summer of

It is the summer of 1968

Amid Judah's dark days

9 x 15 x 2 cm

he'll be dead by the weekend

A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War John S. Littell It is the summer ofThe Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson is a gripping work of narrative history that brings to life the tense five months between Abraham Lincolns election and the opening shots of the American Civil War. With his signature storytelling style, Larson explores a divided nation on the edge of catastrophe, where slavery, secession, pride, fear, and political miscalculation all came together around Fort Sumter. Drawing on diaries, secret communications,