Please join us for the 2023 History Book Festival Keynote Address featuring Steve Inskeep, author of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America (Penguin Press, 2023). He is a cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition, the most widely heard radio program in the United States, and of NPR’s Up First, one of the nation’s most popular podcasts. His search for the full story behind the news has led him to history; he is the author of Instant City, Jacksonland, and Imperfect Union.
Inskeep will be in conversation with Christina Shutt, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
A reservation is required to attend this event. Each reservation includes one general admission seat and a signed, hardback copy of Differ We Must. Please note that reservations are limited.
The Keynote Address is funded through the generous support of Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman.
“Abraham Lincoln, America’s greatest president, comes freshly alive in Steve Inskeep’s brilliant rendering of his interactions with many individuals, famous and obscure, of varied backgrounds and viewpoints. Inskeep’s Lincoln is flexible, witty, and wise–sometimes cagey but always rock-solid in his principles. Differ We Must is a read-we-must in a time when America is almost as divided as it was in Lincoln’s era.” — David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
“Lincoln was an artful politician capable of portraying himself differently to different people. Yet he rose to the level of statesman. Steve Inskeep captures the artfulness and the ascent in this fascinating, insightful account of Lincoln’s dealings with sixteen of his contemporaries — men and women whose cooperation he solicited, whose opposition he parried, and whose diversity informed the more inclusive republic he did so much to create.” — H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator
About the Festival
With the help of our presenting funding partners—Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty—as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2023 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Our Keynote Address is presented by Sally Mott Freeman and John K. Freeman, and our Closing Address is presented by Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence.
Special thanks to our program partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library for event promotion and venue; Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival; Lewes Chamber of Commerce for event promotion, and the Cape Gazette and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.
