Tue Nov 17 · 7pm
Meet the Author: Nathaniel Philbrick — The Rush
Nathaniel Philbrick discusses The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World, which begins with the 1848 strike at Sutter’s Mill and traces how California’s rise “helped push a fractured nation toward war.” Philbrick, whose In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award, talks with Randall MacLowry, the filmmaker behind The Gold Rush for PBS’s American Experience.