Saving Roosevelt: How Fictional Characters Meet America’s Greatest Crisis
Speaker: William Martin
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – 5:00 PM
IN PERSON LECTURE
Join us to hear author, William Martin, speak about his latest work. William Martin’s latest has been called “propulsive,” “pedal-to-the-floor,” and “absolutely splendid, a cinematic thriller that takes us across the United States” in the first days of the war. In November’s ‘Tuesday Talks’ lecture, William Martin will discuss the fascinating historical context of the era of his new book and introduce us to some of the featured players, including FDR and Churchill, the Nazis of Southern California, a few movie stars, and the first readers of the script that became Casablanca.
The book, DECEMBER ’41, begins on the day after Pearl Harbor, as a German agent evades an FBI dragnet in Los Angeles and heads for Washington. His assignment? To kill Franklin Roosevelt when the president appears before 20,000 Americans to light the National tree on Christmas Eve. If he succeeds, he’ll change the course of history.
Reservations are available by clicking HERE. Admission: $10, Members are Free.
About William Martin:
Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including the beloved classic, Cape Cod, along with a PBS documentary, book reviews, magazine articles, and a cult-classic horror movie, too. His first Peter Fallon novel, Back Bay, established him as “a master storyteller,” and he has been following the lives of the great and anonymous in American history ever since, in novels like The Lost Constitution, The Lincoln Letter, and Bound for Gold, which solidified “his claim as king of the historical thriller” (Providence Journal). He was the 2005 recipient of the prestigious New England Book Award, the 2015 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the 2018 recipient of the Robert B. Parker Award. He serves on the boards of many of Boston’s historical and cultural organizations, lives near Boston with his wife, and has three grown children.
