Associates Cocktail Party with Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of eight books, including his most recent, the bestselling Mark Twain. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award; Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In Mark Twain, Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. Drawing on Twain’s bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country’s westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer’s talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.
And also celebrating
Christine and Rod Patton
Lifetime supporters of the Desmond-Fish Public Library and the Hudson Valley Hospital, as well as Hudson River valley history and environmental preservation.
Christine and Rod will be introduced by Libby Pataki, former First Lady of New York State and trustee of the Desmond-Fish Public Library.
