AHI Co-Sponsors Lecture “Celebrating Utica” by Bill Kauffman at Utica College

The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) together with the Eugene Paul Nassar Ethnic Heritage Studies Center at Utica College is pleased to co-sponsor the lecture “Celebrating Utica,” by local author and screenwriter Bill Kauffman on November 3, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at the Carbone Family Auditorium and Mazloom Atrium, Economic Crime and Justice Building, Utica College. The event is open to the public and a book signing will follow.

Bill Kauffman is the author of nine books, including: “Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle American Anti-Imperialism,” which Barnes & Noble named one of the best books of 2008; “Forgotten Founder,Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin” (2008); “Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists(2006), which was named one of the best books of 2006 by the American Library Association and was given the Andrew Eiseman Award by the University of Rochester; and “Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town’s Fightto Survive (2003), winner of the 2003 national “Sense of Place” award from Writers & Books. Kauffman’s screenplay adaptation of Utica native Harold Frederic’s novel “The Copperhead” has been filmed by director Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg) and will be in theaters in 2013.