Abe Lincoln Power of Words Talk
Hughes Main Library 25 Heritage Green Pl, Greenville, South Carolina 29601
Join an audience that loves talking back to history to discuss the legacy of Abraham Lincoln with the author of The Age of Lincoln. Dr. Vernon Burton is a prolific author, an eminent Lincoln scholar and, like Lincoln, tells a great story.
For Dr. Burton, Southern history is personal. He grew up in Ninety-Six, S.C., and graduated from Furman University. He is Clemson University Creativity Professor of Humanities, Professor of History, Sociology, and Computer Science and Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute.
Dr. Burton's The Age of Lincoln (2007) won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction and was selected for Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and Military Book Club. He is also the author of The Essential Lincoln, Speeches and Correspondence as well as eight other books on Southern history.