The Demon of Unrest. Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War

On November 6 1860, America was bitterly at odds. Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and President Lincoln powerless to stop them. These passions came to a head at 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, inflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals.
This is 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.