One County, One Book 2025
Our 2025 community-wide reading initiative encouraging the community to read and engage with a single book!
Join us in reading the thought-provoking book “Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America” by journalist and NPR host Steve Inskeep.
This initiative aimed to unite people of all ages and backgrounds through programs, book clubs, and a community discussion with the author himself.
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2025 McMurtry Lecture featuring Steve Inskeep
Author, Journalist, and Host of NPR's Morning Edition
October 9, 2025
7 p.m. | Allen County Public Library (900 Library Plaza)
Watch the recorded 2025 McMurtry Lecture, available until Oct 9, 2026.
Presented by the Friends of the Lincoln Collection, the ACPL Foundation, and the ACPL Friends of the Library.
Differ We Must : How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By Steve Inskeep
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present.