"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. Master storyteller Erik Larson...

Get the Summary of Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson delves into the tense prelude to the American Civil War, focusing on key figures and events that escalated the conflict. Major Robert Anderson, commanding Fort Sumter with insufficient troops and supplies, faces his former student, Confederate General Beauregard, amid Charleston's secessionist...

"The School on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet, ' the Settlement is a rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and...

An illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history - the Black urban rebellions of the 1960's. REVOLUTION '67 focuses on the explosive urban rebellion in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967, to reveal the long-standing racial, economic, and political forces which generated inner city poverty and perpetuate it today. Newark residents, police, officials, and urban commentators, including writer/activist Amiri Baraka, journalist...