Narrative Nonfiction Book Club – The Demon of Unrest

The Falmouth Public Library’s Narrative Nonfiction Book Club will read books across the genres of nonfiction, from history to adventure, memoir/biography, and beyond with books that read like a novel.

On Saturday, May 3, at 11am in the Hermann room, the club will  discuss its latest book pick, New York Times Bestseller, 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. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, 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.”

This book club is free to the public and copies of the book are available at the adult service desk one month prior to our book club meeting. Register to attend online using the Falmouth Public Library’s event calendar or call 508-457-2555 x7.