David Maraniss at the 2008 Southern Festival of Books

October 19, 2009

In this session from the 2008 Southern Festival of Books, author David Maraniss reads from and discusses his latest book, Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World. This session was recorded live at the House Chambers of the State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee on October 11, 2008. For more podcast episodes, visit our feed at https://chapter16.org/podcast.xml.

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher