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LOCATION:111 Adams Avenue\nLewes DE 19958
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SUMMARY:History Book Festival Presents: Susan Berfield - The Hour of Fate
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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the History Book Festival\, join us for a
  live\,\ninteractive talk with Susan Berfield\, author of The Hour of Fate
 :\nTheodore Roosevelt\, J. P. Morgan\, and the Battle to Transform America
 n\nCapitalism\, one of the books featured at the 2020 virtual History Book
 \nFestival. In 1902\, one of J. P. Morgan's companies\, Northern\nSecuriti
 es\, was sued by Theodore Roosevelt's administration for\nantitrust violat
 ions. As the case ramped up\, the coal miners went on\nstrike\, abandoning
  the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and\nheated the homes of 
 Roosevelt's citizens. With millions of dollars on\nthe line\, winter beari
 ng down\, and revolution in the air\, it was a\ncrisis that neither man al
 one could solve. The outcome of the strike\nand the case would change the 
 course of history. Susan Berfield is an\ninvestigative reporter for Bloomb
 erg Businessweek and Bloomberg News\,\nwhere she has covered some of Ameri
 ca's largest corporations. She\nlives in Brooklyn\, NY. Online program fro
 m the History Book Festival\nand the Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this meet
 ing is being conducted\nthrough Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instruc
 tions for joining\nthe meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In collaboration with the History Book Festiva
 l\, join us for a live\, interactive talk with Susan Berfield\, author of 
 The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt\, J. P. Morgan\, and the Battle to Tr
 ansform American Capitalism\, one of the books featured at the 2020 virtua
 l History Book Festival. In 1902\, one of J. P. Morgan's companies\, North
 ern Securities\, was sued by Theodore Roosevelt's administration for antit
 rust violations. As the case ramped up\, the coal miners went on strike\, 
 abandoning the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the 
 homes of Roosevelt's citizens. With millions of dollars on the line\, wint
 er bearing down\, and revolution in the air\, it was a crisis that neither
  man alone could solve. The outcome of the strike and the case would chang
 e the course of history. Susan Berfield is an investigative reporter for B
 loomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News\, where she has covered some of A
 merica's largest corporations. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. Online program 
 from the History Book Festival and the Lewes Public Library. NOTE: this me
 eting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instru
 ctions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
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