DIFFER WE MUST: LINCOLN IN A DIVIDED AMERICA with STEVE INSKEEP

11:15 am - 12:00 pm
| Location of Session: Russell Hill Rogers Tent
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 12:15pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

How did President Abraham Lincoln become the Lincoln we know? In Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, longtime NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep illuminates Lincoln’s life through sixteen encounters. Inskeep will take the stage to discuss Lincoln’s ability to bridge divides and build constructive conversations to ultimately preserve democracy in a time of crisis – offering important parallels to our present day.

About the Author

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Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep 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 reporting has taken him across the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Pakistan, and China. 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. His latest book is Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America.

Moderator

Dan Goodgame

Dan Goodgame is Texas Monthly’s editor in chief. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author, Goodgame joined TM in early 2019, after serving as a vice president at Rackspace, a cloud computing company based in San Antonio. Before that, Goodgame was editor in chief of Fortune Small Business magazine, whose subscribers were more than a million owners of entrepreneurial companies. He earlier worked for Time magazine as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and assistant managing editor. He is coauthor of the book Marching in Place, about the first president Bush. Goodgame previously worked for the Miami Herald, including as a correspondent in the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon and Iran-Iraq wars. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Goodgame earned a bachelor’s degree at Ole Miss and a master’s in international relations at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.