"The Demon of Unrest": Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time.

A group of small businesses that won an order finding President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal urged a ...

Erik Larson's latest history book examines the events leading up to the Civil War, and some of the people involved, concluding the conflagration was not inevitable.

Maybe Erik Larson Should Have Left the Civil War Alone In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.

James Buchanan hands off the presidency to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War looms in "The Demon of Unrest," the latest from "The Devil in the White City" author Erik Larson.

Erik Larson tells the story of the national crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln’s victory in November 1860.

Jul. 12—TRAVERSE CITY — Best-selling author Erik Larson visited Traverse City on Thursday to discuss his latest historical thriller — "The Demon of Unrest" — about the dawn of disunion and ...

The full title of Erik Larson’s 2003 narrative nonfiction classic is The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, and it manages to deliver all that ...

The next book by Erik Larson, known for the best-selling “The Devil in the White City,” is a work of Civil War history inspired in part by current events.

Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest, published this year by Penguin Random House, contains critical lessons for the fight against Trump and the threat of dictatorship today.

It takes a historian of Erik Larson’s skill to walk us through those fraught days, in his latest work of nonfiction, “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn ...

Only a master storyteller like Erik Larson could turn the five tumultuous months leading up to the Civil War into "The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and ...