Main Point Books, Radnor Memorial Library, and Radnor Historical Society welcome you to an afternoon exploring voices from the Civil War with authors Allen Guelzo and Jon Grinspan.
This event is in the WInsor Room at Radnor Memorial Library. Registrations are requested via Eventbrite. Books can be purchased in advance through Eventbrite or the store's webiste, and will be for sale during the event.
Jon Grinspan's Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War tells the story of the Wide Awakes, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, who organized boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades to oppose slavery. These Wide Awakes—mostly working-class Americans in their twenties—became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history. To some, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery.
Allen Guelzo's Voices from Gettysburg is the history of the battle of Gettysburg told in the most personal way, through letters, papers, and memoirs.
