John Brown’s secret raid on Harpers Ferry ruptured the union between North and South, but few Americans know the true story of the militant idealists who invaded Virginia before the Civil War.
In the new book “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War,” author Tony Horwitz returns to the Civil War era to tell the gripping story of a man and a mission that changed the course of history.
Horwitz probes the troubled soul of Brown, the desperate passion of his followers and the spirit of a divided nation.
Horwitz is the author of the best-sellers “A Voyage Long and Strange,” “Blue Latitudes,” “Confederates in the Attic” and “Baghdad Without A Map.” He worked as a reporter in Indiana and overseas as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.
A book signing will follow the program.
The event was moderated by John Maynard, from the Newseum.
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