AN EVENING WITH HISTORIAN RICK ATKINSON & SUSAN SWAIN

The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library Board of Trustees invites you to an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning author, historian and journalist, Rick Atkinson as he discusses the newest volume in his Revolution Trilogy, The Fate of the Day, with Susan Swain, recently retired co-Chief Executive Officer, President and board member of C-SPAN.

The Annual Summer Author Event will be held Thursday, June 19 at the Kennebunk River Club, 116 Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport. Doors open at 5:00 PM for cocktails and appetizers with the program beginning promptly at 5:45 PM. As the library’s largest annual fundraiser, the event supports the library’s essential operations and celebrates the community’s commitment to ideas, featuring nationally recognized authors and speakers.

“Rick Atkinson takes his place among the greatest of all historians. This superb second volume in his Revolution Trilogy is that rare narrative that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Familiar characters become dimensional and complicated, new ones burst to life vividly, and the battles and struggles that created our country now have clarity and meaning.” —KEN BURNS

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the beginning of America’s war for independence, Atkinson’s THE FATE OF THE DAY: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 is the second volume of his landmark Revolution Trilogy following, The British Are Coming. Atkinson’s brilliant account of the lethal conflict between the Americans and the British offers not only deeply researched and spectacularly dramatic history, but also a new perspective on the demands that a democracy makes on its citizens.

Atkinson has produced a remarkable oeuvre of bestselling history that includes the Liberation Trilogy (the first volume, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, received the Pulitzer in History), The Long Gray Line, Crusade, In the Company of Soldiers.

Atkinson will be interviewed by Susan Swain, who audiences will recognize from her decades of work with C-SPAN, where she helped launch BookTV and American History TV in addition to holding key responsibilities with day-to-day operations as co-Chief Executive Officer of C-SPAN, the nation’s eighth largest cable television network.

Attendees receive a copy of THE FATE OF THE DAY with the purchase of two event tickets, to be given at the event.

Some sponsors include: Spinnaker Trust, Kennebunk River Club, the Colony Hotel, Kitchen Chicks Catering, Robert and Marjorie Dennis, Michael and Victoria Donaghy, Allyn and Norma Lamb, Paul Mahoney, Tom and Sarah Vander Schaaff, Maine & Vine, Hurlbutt Designs, Edison Press, Mark and Victoria Lamarre, Tom Stone and Lisa Coppola, Greg and Heather Taggart, Kennebunkport Resort Collection, Kennebunk Savings Bank, and Schooner Eleanor.