FASCINATING NONFICTION – FALL 2024 VIDEOS

Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein

Fascinating Nonfiction is a history and philosophy course that explores books of a variety of subjects.

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FASCINATING NONFICTION
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

Presenter: Bob Reiss
Presentation Date: September 11, 2024

• Link to Demon of Unrest Video

At the heart of this story is a mystery that still confounds. How on earth did South Carolina, a primitive, scantily populated state in economic decline, become the fulcrum for America’s greatest tragedy [the Civil War]? And even more bewildering, what malignant magic brought Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line to the point where they could actually imagine the wholesale killing of one another?