Please join us for a lecture, reception, and book signing
Wednesday, November 17, 2010• Reception: 5:30 p.m. • Program: 6:00 p.m.
Barnet Schecter is a Manhattan-based writer and historian. His interest in architecture, urban planning, and urban history evolved from his first career, as a sculptor. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Queens College, CUNY. From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington purchased and drew were always central to his work–as surveyor, military leader, private citizen, and statesman. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas, which remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library. By allowing readers to visualize history through Washington’s eyes, to see events as they unfolded on the maps he studied, George Washington’s America offers a unique perspective on history, and important new insight into Washington’s character and his transformation from private citizen to founding father.
Library Lectures at the American Philosophical Society are free and open to the public. Reservations are necessary. All events take place in Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Each event will be followed by a book signing where authors’ books will be available for purchase.