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)
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.