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The Underground Railroad Foxiest Founding Father The End of Men
Colson Whitehead Elizabeth Cobbs Rebecca Mead and Hanna Rosin
Thursday 10:30–11:15 am Thursday 10:30–11:15 am Thursday 10:30–11:15 am
Walt Disney Room Anne Rice Room Joan Didion Room

Colson Whitehead has established himself as one of the Hamilfans rejoice! Here is an opportunity to get Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the
most versatile and innovative writers in contemporary to meet Elizabeth Cobbs, historian and author of dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin noticed that
literature. From the secret lives of elevators to the deliciously dishy historical novel, The Hamilton this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer
international poker tournaments, Whitehead takes Affair. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the true. Today, by almost every measure, women are
on the marginal, the strange, and the surreal. His American Revolution, it features a cast of legendary no longer gaining on men: many would argue they
award winning novel, The Underground Railroad, is characters. The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping and have pulled decisively ahead. Rosin reveals how our
a magnificent tour de force that chronicles a young tumultuous true story of Alexander Hamilton and current state of affairs is radically shifting the power
slave’s journey during a desperate bid for freedom in Elizabeth Schuyler, from its passionate beginnings dynamics between men and women at every level
the antebellum South. Whitehead will share how he to our nation’s first sex scandal. Their story ends of society, with profound implications for marriage,
came to write his powerful new novel that has been famously with Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr on sex, children, work, and more. With Rebecca Mead.
described as a shattering meditation on the United the banks of the Hudson River. With Patt Morrrison.
States’ complicated political and racial history.

“On one end there was who you were
before you went underground, and
on the other end a new person steps
out into the light.”

— Colson Whitehead,
The Underground Railroad

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