Oct
6
11:00pm
1968 in America: An Evening with Charles Kaiser
By The Mercantile Library
Join Charles Kaiser in conversation with journalists Jay Stowe and Sridhar Pappu for a discussion of his book, 1968 in America as he examines parallels between that year and present day, and much more.
Charles Kaiser's 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan), this is compulsively readable popular history.
Charles Kaiser directs the Roosevelt House LGBTQ Policy Center at Hunter College. He is the author of three books: The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America; 1968 in America, and The Cost of Courage. He delivered the Mercantile Library's 1835 Lecture in April 2016.
Jay Stowe is an award-winning journalist and editor whose work has been seen in The New York Observer, Spin Magazine, Outside, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal. He was the editor-in-chief at Cincinnati Magazine from 2004-2017.
Sridhar Pappu is the author of The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age. He is a former correspondent for The Atlantic, and has been a staff writer for Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post.
Copies of 1968 in America and all of Kaiser's books can be purchased online HERE via Joseph-Beth Cincinnati. Sridhar Pappu's The Year of the Pitcher is also available via Joseph-Beth Cincinnati HERE.
This program is free and open to the public.
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