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Film, Video Lincoln, the Presidency and the Press: National Book Festival 2020

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Title

  • Lincoln, the Presidency and the Press: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media from the Founding Fathers to Fake News" (Dutton), appears in conversation with Ted Widmer, "Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington" (Simon & Schuster). Award-winning historian Holzer offers an account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press--from George Washington to Donald Trump--while American historian and librarian Widmer tells of Lincoln, during the deepest crisis in American history, boarding a train for his inauguration in Washington even as Southerners vowed to prevent his presidency. Moderated by biographer and executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Kai Bird.

Event Date

  • September 26, 2020

Running Time

  • 41 minutes 21 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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