The Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidential Library and Museum

presents the 19th annual

ROOSEVELT READING FESTIVAL

with fourteen authors of

recently published books

including a special afternoon

presentation with Jill Watts,

author of THE BLACK CABINET:

THE UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN

AMERICANS AND POLITICS DURING

THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT

June 24, 2023,

beginning at 9:45 a.m.

 

HYDE PARK, NY -- On Saturday, June 24, 2023, from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host the 19th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. The day-long program will highlight the recently published work of fourteen authors -- including a special afternoon presentation with Jill Watts, author of THE BLACK CABINET: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND POLITICS DURING THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT. The festival will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. This is a free public event. Registration is not required.

 

This year’s Reading Festival attendees will receive free admission to the Library’s new special exhibition, BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, 1932-1962, on June 24, 2023 (www.fdrlibrary.org/civil-rights-special-exhibit).

 

In six concurrent sessions taking place throughout the day, fourteen authors of works that draw upon the Roosevelt Library archives -- or focus on the Roosevelt era -- will present author talks followed by question-and-answer sessions and book signings. Copies of all the authors' books will be available for sale in the New Deal Store. The program begins at 9:45 a.m. with coffee and refreshments.

 

This year's Roosevelt 2023 Reading Festival authors include:

 

Eileen A. Bjorkman

The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

 

David Chrisinger

The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II

 

Alexander B. Heffner

A Documentary History of the United States

 

Ida E. Jones

Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot

 

Harvey J. Kaye

FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

Tom Levitt

The Courage to Meddle: The Belief of Frances Perkins

 

Steven Lomazow

FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups that Rewrote History

 

Mary Llewellyn McNeil

Century’s Witness: The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll

 

Craig Nelson

V is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

 

David Pietrusza

Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

 

Sara Rutkowski

Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project

 

Shannon McKenna Schmidt

The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back

 

Victoria W. Wolcott

Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement

 

Special Afternoon Presentation:

Jill Watts

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

 

The event is free and open to the public. Author book signings will be conducted throughout the day, and books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store. For additional information about this event please call Cliff Laube at (845) 486-7745.