Library Hours
Mon, Tues, Wed: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday & Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Library Hours
Mon, Tues, Wed: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday & Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Monthly meeting on the fourth Monday of the month. Books are available to pick up at the Service Desk; newcomers are always welcome.
The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
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 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, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.”
The History Book Club is self-run by the members. Copies of the book are available at the Service Desk.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History & Genealogy | Book group |
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