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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this \u201criveting reexamination of a nation in tumult\u201d (Los Angeles Times).<\/p>\n

\u201cA feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.\u201d\u2014The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln\u2019s election and the Confederacy\u2019s shelling of Sumter\u2014a 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 \u201cso great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter\u2019s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable\u2014one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.<\/p>\n

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\u2014a dark reminder that we often don\u2019t see a cataclysm coming until it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

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