Kevin Galvin at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Kevin Galvin —former deputy national editor of The Boston Globe and correspondent for the Associated Press and The Seattle Times —for a discussion of his new book, Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976 . He will be joined in conversation by Mitchell Zuckoff —Sumner M. Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies at Boston University and author of nine books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi , which was adapted into the Michael Bay/Paramount Pictures movie of the same name. About Troubled Times Interweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing victim to explore the roots and unintended consequences of political violence. 1976. The Vietnam War had ended, but radical political groups still operated clandestinely throughout the United States. Nowhere was the threat of civil unrest greater than in Boston. Racial tensions had been building since a federal judge ordered the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, and civic leaders were counting on the pageantry of the nation’s Bicentennial to boost both tourism and investment. In April, the Sam Melville-Jonathan…