"The Demon of Unrest": Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War 06:27. The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time.

The Grand Island Public Library is inviting true crime enthusiasts and readers to join the Crimetime Book Club for a ...

There may be a tendency to think of the war in the same breath as Abraham Lincoln, but Larson, whose history-but-make-it-fun books include “Isaac’s Storm” and “The Devil in the White City ...

NEW YORK – The next book by Erik Larson, widely 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 “The Demon of Unrest” stands against this dynamic, providing a lively and detailed account of the ideas, people and events that precipitated the start of a national tragedy.

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.

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 arrival of a new Erik Larson book is a genuine event, a feast of historical insight and narrative verve even when it focuses on a twice- or thrice-told tale. America’s secession winter, the ...

Author Erik Larson may be known for his narrative nonfiction books—but he also loves a good ghost story. | Nina Subin (Erik Larson) // Boumen Japet, Shutterstock (Book and Desk) // Wikimedia ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by Erik Larson, widely known for the best-selling “The Devil in the White City,” is a work of Civil War history inspired in part by current events. Crown ...