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The A. Scott Bullitt Lecture in American History presented by THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Distinguished U.S. historian Richard White, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and formerly at the University of Washington, gives this year's Bullitt Lecture at The Seattle Public Library. His 2011 book, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (W.W. Norton), is one of the major works of history published this year. "When it comes to the American West, there is no other writer like Richard White, a serious scholar with a highly original take on familiar subjects and elegant prose besides. His subject, the making of the transcontinental railroads, is perhaps the pivotal story of the West, but it's not the one we know from the movies and myth. It's about the birth of all those things that most trouble us nowadays, a genesis story in which the serpent in Eden is the railroad itself writhing across the continent." – Rebecca Solnit. "Railroaded is a wonderful book: fresh, provocative, witty, filled with foreshadowing of our world but always true to its time, and told with the narrative force of a locomotive roaring across the empty plains." – Geoffrey C. Ward. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Seattle Public Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.
