If you are a non-fiction reader and are looking for a book club please join KFPLs first ever non-fiction book club! This club meets in person at Bronzwood Golf Club located at 9645 Kinsman Pymatuning Rd, Kinsman, OH 44428 at 3:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of every other month to discuss the latest group selection.
Meets in January, March, May, July, September & November.
Next Meeting Date: Wednesday, November 20 (moved from the last Wednesday to Nov. 20th because of Thanksgiving) from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
September Book: 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: 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.”