Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 6:30 PM
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Open to the Public | Members' Room | $10 with advance registration; $15 at the door
An epic tale by award-winning author Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America’s past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery.