June 4th, 2021
In this week’s episode, we interview Patrick Parr, author of
One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation,
published March 2021 by Chicago Review Press. Parr’s narrative is a day-by-day examination of a week that began with President Lyndon B. Johnson announcement that he would not seek re-election and ended with the fallout created by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s the assassination. Parr includes never-before-published letters from festival…
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