Join us for an evening with Author Stephen Puleo. Puleo is an author, historian, teacher, public speaker, and communications professional. He is the author of eight books, including his most recent, The Great
Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, published by St. Martin’s Press in 2024, and nominated for the prestigious Mark Lynton History Prize offered by the Columbia School of Journalism and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. He is currently at work on his ninth book.
His previous books are:
• VOYAGE OF MERCY: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First
Humanitarian Mission (2020)
• AMERICAN TREASURES: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the
Gettysburg Address (2016)
• THE CANING: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War (2012)
• A CITY SO GRAND: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 (2010)
• THE BOSTON ITALIANS: A Story of Pride, Perseverance and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to
the Present Day (2007)
• DUE TO ENEMY ACTION: The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56 (2005)
• DARK TIDE: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
Copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing. Program is free and no registration is required. Sponsored by Friends of the Wareham Free Library.