Mon 2/8 @ 7PM
Historian/author Jon Meacham has written some of the most readable and thought-provoking works of American history, including The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Impeachment: An American History, and Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation. In fact, in the last 18 years, he’s put out ten books that make different aspects of our history come alive for the average lay person.
Number ten came out last year, looking at the background and legacy of a civil rights giant who died last July: Georgia congressman John Lewis. In His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, Meacham, who says that Lewis was “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century,” brings together material from decades of interviews with Lewis who became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and one of its leaders in the 60s.
Meacham will talk about his book in conversation with Today show host Jenna Bush Hager in a live streaming program hosted by the Hudson Library & Historical Society. It’s free but you must register here.
Copies of the book are available for purchase through Hudson’s Learned Owl Book Shop.