Erik Larson
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Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City (2003), about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair. The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards.
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The Demon of Unrest
Read the insightsErik Larson is a former Wall Street Journal and Time writer whose narrative histories, including The Devil in the White City, Dead Wake and The Splendid and the Vile, have sold millions of copies.
In The Demon of Unrest, Erik Larson tells the story of the five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, when a divided country slid from argument into civil war. Through a cast that includes a conflicted army major, a famous diarist, a vain secessionist agitator and an overconfident secretary of state, the book shows how pride, misjudgment and the defense of slavery turned a standoff over one harbor fort into the nation’s bloodiest conflict. You’ll learn why compromise failed, how honor and fear drove the South, and why Larson believes the story still speaks to a polarized present.
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Read the insightsOftentimes the portrayal of historic events casts key figures as static chess-pieces engaged in a series of battles, negotiations, and strategies. While many people are aware of Winston Churchill’s magnetic speeches and integral role in acquiring victory for the Allies in World War II, the story of how this simultaneously empathetic and cutthroat man maintained daily life with his family and the “Secret Circle” is little known. Journalist Erik Larson delivers a vivid narrative of the man whose strength of character empowered a nation to persevere through the year that shook the earth.