Erik Larson, author of “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage Bookstre on ...
Erik Larson was on the record years ago when he said he would never write a book on the Civil War. “Who needs the grief, right? There are so many Civil War buffs,” Larson had said.