April 15 – David Blight in conversation with Jim Oakes
Two leading historians of the Civil War era, David Blight (Yale) and James Oakes (The Graduate Center), discuss Blight’s acclaimed book Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In the first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades, Blight gives the most comprehensive and humanizing portrait of the great abolitionist to date. Naming it one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, The New York Times called it a “monumental work about a monumental figure” and noted that “Blight’s detailed, cinematic biography is the result of a lifetime of engagement with his subject.”
Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
April 15, 2019: 6:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
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