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22 de mar. de 2016 · Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Paperback – March 22, 2016. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants.
30 de abr. de 2024 · When Larson, the reigning king of Dad History, drops a new book on the Civil War a month and a half before Father’s Day in a pivotal election year, he knows what he’s doing. Sort of. “The ...
Eric Larson is a journalist and author of several bestselling books including Thunderstruck, Dead Wake, The Devil in the White City, and In the Garden of Beasts. Acclaimed for bringing life to the mysteries of history, he won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing and in 2016 received the Chicago Public Library's Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
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 slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern ...
17 de feb. de 2014 · Erik Larson. Erik Larson is the author of nine books and one audio-only novella. His latest book, The Demon of Unrest, is a non-fiction thriller about the five months between Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War. Six of his books became New York Times bestsellers. Two of these, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill ...
The Splendid and the Vile. (2020) Description / Buy at Amazon. The Demon of Unrest. (2024) Description / Buy at Amazon. A journalist at heart, the bestselling American author Erik Larson has sold a number of books throughout the years, most of them being non-fiction. Focusing on his investigative nature, he works to report the facts as he sees ...
10 de feb. de 2004 · Larson explains the physical details of putting the fair together and the bureaucratic jungle that Burnham had to hack his way through in order to accomplish his goal. The author tells us about some of the products that were introduced or popularized at the fair, such as Juicy Fruit gum, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima's pancake mix and Shredded Wheat ("shredded doormat, some called it).
