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Lincoln and Liberty, Too!
Bestselling author William Martin discusses the presidency of Abraham Lincoln
“Lincoln and Liberty, Too!”
On Thursday, May 7th at 7 p.m. at the Sherborn Library, William Martin, award-wining New York Times Bestselling author will present “Lincoln and Liberty, Too!”
Through a series of 57 vivid slides, some of them extremely rare holdings from the Library of Congress, he will trace the arc of Lincoln’s presidency from constitutional lawyer to moral leader, using his research for his latest novel, The Lincoln Letter.
2015 marks the 150 year anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination.
William Martin is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, a PBS documentary, book reviews, magazine articles, and a cult-classic horror movie, too. His first Peter Fallon novel, Back Bay, established him as “a master storyteller.” He has been following the lives of the great and anonymous in American history ever since and has taken readers from the Pilgrims to 9/11. He was the 2005 recipient of the prestigious New England Book Award, given to an author “whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region.” He lives near Boston with his wife and has three grown children.
This program is co-sponsored by the Sherborn Historical Society and the Sherborn Library.