Season 1 · Episode 9
Good Lord Bird & John Brown in Ethan Hawke's America with Jeffrey Insko & Ashley Rattner
James McBride's retelling of John Brown's epochal raid on Harpers Ferry through the eyes of a young black man won the National Book Award in 2013 and was recently adapted into a Showtime miniseries...
The American Vandal · Matt Seybold, Center For Mark Twain Studies
December 14, 20201h 7m
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Show Notes
James McBride's retelling of John Brown's epochal raid on Harpers Ferry through the eyes of a young black man won the National Book Award in 2013 and was recently adapted into a Showtime miniseries by Ethan Hawke. Two scholars of antebellum abolitionism discuss Good Lord Bird and, more generally, rising popular interest in the events leading up to the American Civil War.