it's an honor to have this book here at the southern festival and because david zucchino one the full surprise for nonfiction and this book is a very important book and i hope that if you have not read it you will certainly be inspired to read it after our session today. david zucchino is a contributing writer to the new times in his most recent articles have been about the war in afghanistan, the withdrawal and the overall condition of the country there. he did win a pulitzer back in 1989 for his journalistic of reporting of the south africa and he's been nominated for journalism for different times in addition to that. so without further ado i want to introduce you to our author, david zucchino and thank you very much. >> owner think everybody for coming in and i am going to talk to maybe for ten or 15 minutes and just give you sort of an overview of the book and what it's about and just sort of grant you and then i will also go to questions from carol and then hopefully you in the audience. so i would like to be in today to talk about an event from 11203 years ago that still reverb

. >>> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy, and i am the moderator of this session on david zucchino's book, "wilmington's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy," it's indeed an honor for us to have this book here at the southern festival, and because david has won the pulitzer prize for 2021 for nonfiction for this book. it is a very important book, and i hope if you haven't read it, you will certainly be inspired to read it after our session today. david zucchino is a contributing writer to the "new york times." his most recent articles have been about the war in afghanistan, the withdrawal and the overall condition of the country there. he did win a pulitzer back in 1989 for his journalistic reporting after the apartheid in south africa. he's been nominated for journalism four different times in addition to that. so without further ado, i want to introduce you to our author, david zucchino. thank you very much. >> thank you carole, it's wonderful to be here. i want to thank everybody for coming in. i'm going to talk for 10 or 15 minutes and give you an overview

it's an honor to have this book here at the southern festival and because david zucchino one the full surprise for nonfiction and this book is a very important book and i hope that if you have not read it you

. >>> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy, and i am the moderator of this session on david zucchino's bookngton's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the