The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America with Kostya Kennedy

On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a dangerous but crucial mission: to alert American colonists of advancing British troops.

In this presentation Kennedy will discuss his book in which he presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary sources researched in archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more. Kennedy reveals Revere’s ride to be more complex than it is usually portrayed—a loosely coordinated series of rides by numerous men, near-disaster, capture by British forces, and finally success.

Along with The Ride, Kennedy has written True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson and the NYT’s bestsellers 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, and Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. He is the Editor in Chief of Premium Publishing at Dotdash Meredith, overseeing special editions under People, LIFE, EatingWell, Real Simple, Health, TIME and others. He has an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, from which he received a Pulitzer Fellowship and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Stony Brook University.

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