Steve Inskeep presents Imperfect Union at Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes STEVE INSKEEP—celebrated reporter and cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition and Up First—for a discussion of his latest book, Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. He will be joined in conversation by author and national security analyst JULIETTE KAYYEM.

About Imperfect Union

John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age—known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont.

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