Erik Larson (historical author)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Erik Larson (The Demon of Unrest, The Devil in the White City) is an author and journalist. Erik joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how the pandemic affected his work, why he identifies himself as a high-functioning introvert, and how he pitches non-fiction books. Erik and Dax talk about how technology has changed his research, why he’s drawn to Russian literature, and wanting to find a witchy element in a home. Erik explains how January 6th fueled his desire to write a book about the Civil War, the correlation between gun ownership and slavery, and why the origins of historical conflicts are important. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dan Jenkins and I'm joined by Monica Plaidman.
0:07.0	Hi!
0:08.0	Hi, I'm still liking that your teacher called you Padman.
0:11.0	It was a really cool move. Yeah and at a young age that's cool.
0:14.5	Fifth grade you said? Ath. Oh. I was really old. You just looked like you were in fifth
0:19.0	grade. No I was very developed. Very tall. Today's guess is one of my is very
0:25.0	favorite authors. I've talked about his books
0:28.0	a million times on here.
0:29.0	Eric Larson, he's a journalist and a best-selling author.
0:32.0	He wrote The Splendid in the Vile, Dead Wake in the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, and of course,
0:40.0	The Devil in the White City. Tasty.
0:43.0	He has a new book out now that I read and love,
0:46.0	and I can't stop thinking about it.
0:47.5	I need to read it.
0:48.5	I brought it up today in our interview with another guest.
0:51.0	Yeah. The new book is called The Demon of Unrest, a saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the
0:56.8	dawn of the Civil War.
0:58.8	I'll say it's timely.
1:00.8	Hmm. Well, what's really fascinating is about it and unique, I think, is most books about the
1:06.2	Civil War, they start with the first shot, basically.
1:10.1	This is all about, like, how on earth did we get to that point where we were a unified country and then we were divided.
1:17.5	Yeah.
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