Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter David Finkel Presents “An American Dreamer”
St. Louis County Library Foundation and the JCC of St. Louis are pleased to host an SLCL Authors @ the J event with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel for a discussion and signing of his book “An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country.”
The event is presented by St. Louis County Library’s Westfall Politics and History Series.
David Finkel will be in conversation with St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger.
The event will take place on Wednesday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m. at the JCC’s Staenberg Family Center – Mirowitz Performing Arts Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146.
The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Left Bank Books
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Thank You for Your Service” and “The Good Soldiers,” David Finkel presents an immersive navigation of the deep divisions in America today.
As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings–one of the central figures in Finkel’s critically-acclaimed “The Good Soldiers,” finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An Iraq war veteran, raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly surprised by the behavior and beliefs of others, and engulfed by the fear, anger, and confusion that is sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold on to his values and his hope for America’s future.
David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fourteen years deep inside Brent Cummings’s world to create this intimate and vivid portrait of a man’s life, his work, family, community, his thoughts, and his quest for connection, as America becomes ever more divided.
“An American Dreamer” illuminates, with the deepest empathy, the feelings and lives of many people in America today, and it is a brilliant chronicle of one person’s everyday experiences of frustration, confusion, and hope.
David Finkel is an editor and writer at The Washington Post. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, he is the author of “Thank You for Your Service” and “The Good Soldiers.”
Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.