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Boston Athenaeum Book Talk: Forged in Crisis

January 29, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

$15 - $20

The Boston Athenaeum is proud to host NANCY KOEHN, author of Forged in Crisis, The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.

This enthralling historical narrative by Harvard Business School historian NANCY KOEHN spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.

Registration is required. Members $15 and Visitors $20

Details

Date:
January 29, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
$15 - $20
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Website:
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/events/5183/forged-crisis-power-courageous-leadership-turbulent-times

Venue

Boston Athenæum
10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA United States
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Phone:
857-210-6973

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.