Thu Jan 21 · 4:30pm
Ted Widmer: The Living Declaration
Ted Widmer discusses his latest book, The Living Declaration: A Biography of America’s Founding Text. Widmer, a Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, formerly directed Brown’s John Carter Brown Library and was a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton. His Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington won the 2020 Lincoln Forum Book Prize, and he helped create the New York Times’s Disunion series on the Civil War.