Ridgefield resident and author, Todd Brewster will discuss his book Lincoln’s Gamble tonight at Wilton Library beginning at 7pm in the Brubeck Room.
The book focuses in on the six-month period leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation - a moment that proved pivotal not only to Lincoln’s life but also to the fabric of American national identity.
In this compelling narrative, Todd Brewster focuses on these critical six months to ask: was it through will or by accident, intention or coincidence, personal achievement or historical determinism that Lincoln freed the slaves? Lincoln’s Gamble portrays the president as an imperfect man with an unshakable determination to save a country he believed in, even as the course of the Civil War remained unknown.
Registration highly recommended. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Elm Street Books, New Canaan.
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