动荡的恶魔：内战初期的傲慢、心碎和英雄主义传奇 The Demon of Unrest:A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

基本信息

Publisher：Crown (April 30, 2024)

Language：English

Hardcover：592 pages

ISBN-10：0385348746

ISBN-13：978-0385348744

Item Weight：1.98 pounds

Dimensions：6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inch

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书籍简介

★《纽约时报》畅销书作者《动荡的恶魔》生动地讲述了亚伯拉罕·林肯当选和内战爆发之间关键的五个月——一场酝酿已久的危机，终将一个深度分裂的国家撕成两半。

★《时代》《男性健康》《Lit Hub》年度受期待的书籍：

1860 年 11 月 6 日，亚伯拉罕·林肯在一场激烈的总统竞选中侥幸获胜。 国家内部矛盾十分激烈。 南方极端分子越来越接近摧毁联邦，一个又一个州纷纷脱离联邦，林肯无力阻止他们。 奴隶制加剧了冲突，但不知何故，南北双方的热情开始集中在查尔斯顿港一座孤独的联邦堡垒：萨姆特堡。

故事大师埃里克·拉尔森 (Erik Larson) 扣人心弦地讲述了从林肯当选到南方邦联炮击萨姆特之间的混乱岁月，这段时期充斥着悲剧性错误和沟通不畅、自我膨胀和怯懦野心、个人悲剧和背叛。 林肯本人写道，这五个月的考验“如此之大，如果我能预见到它们，我都不会相信我能幸存下来。”

这个充满悬念的故事的核心人物是萨姆特的指挥官罗伯特·安德森少校，他是一位同情南方但忠于联邦的前奴隶主。 埃德蒙·鲁芬（Edmund Ruffin），一个虚荣而嗜血的激进分子，一有机会就煽动分裂主义热情； 玛丽·博伊金·切斯纳特（Mary Boykin Chesnut）是一位知名种植园主的妻子，她在婚姻和奴隶制问题上存在冲突，并看到了两者之间的相似之处。 在这一切的中间，不知所措的林肯正在与他的两面派国务卿威廉·苏厄德作斗争，他拼命试图避免一场他担心不可避免的战争——一场将杀死 75 万美国人的战争。

拉尔森利用日记、秘密公报、奴隶账本和种植园记录，为我们讲述了一个政治恐怖故事，捕捉到了将美国推向崩溃边缘的力量——一个黑暗的提醒，我们常常在看到灾难来临时为时已晚。

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Men’s Health, Lit Hub

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.”

At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.

Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late.

作者简介

埃里克·拉尔森 (Erik Larson) 是六本全国畅销书的作者：《辉煌与邪恶》、《死亡觉醒》、《野兽花园》、《雷霆万钧》、《白城恶魔》和《艾萨克的风暴》，这些书的总销量超过一千万册。 他的书已在近二十个国家出版。

Erik Larson is the author of six previous national bestsellers—The Splendid and the Vile, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm—which have collectively sold more than ten million copies. His books have been published in nearly twenty countries.