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SUMMARY:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols
DESCRIPTION:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols\, welcoming bestselling historian Harold Holzer to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on his new novel\, Brought Forth on This Continent”: Abraham Lincoln and America Immigration. This event is free and open to the public. \nTo enter the signing line\, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event\, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment. Preordered copies will not be signed until after the event. \n\n\n\n\n\nPREORDER A SIGNED COPY\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer\, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. \nIn the three decades before the Civil War\, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States\, forever altering the nation’s demographics\, culture\, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy\, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly\, at times violent\, vein of nativist bigotry. \nAbraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were\, and how interwoven they had become in American society. \nHarold Holzer\, winner of the Lincoln Prize\, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration\, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion\, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes\, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and\, by the tens of thousands\, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work\, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln’s life and legacy in a wholly original way\, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first. \nAbout the Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era\, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He currently serves as the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College\, City University of New York.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/the-midtown-scholar-bookstore-presents-an-evening-with-harold-holzer-with-ncwm-ceo-jeffrey-nichols/
LOCATION:the Midtown Bookstore\, 1302 North 3rd St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17102\, United States
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