Over the weekend, Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) awarded historiographer Heather Cox Richardson with its inaugural Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award, “established to grant a writer whose dependable powerfully embodies the wisdom, courage, and steadfastness that marked the lives of Todd Gitlin and Paul Auster, WDA Founding Members.” Here’s immoderate much from the WDA:
For the past 7 years, Professor Richardson has published her nightly Letters From An American, an acute historian’s speechmaking of contiguous events successful the airy of the nation’s past. Fully sourced and ever crediting different writers, her enactment gives caller meaning to the aged saw that “Journalism is the unsmooth draught of history.” Although, successful her case, without the roughness: benignant and wit are hallmarks of the HCR Letters.
The Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award underscores the writer’s nationalist work successful a clip of unprecedented crisis, and celebrates the powerfulness of words to grounds past and to alteration it. In a unsafe time, Heather Cox Richardson has upheld those values magnificently. It is WDA’s grant to grant her.
The presumption was live-streamed connected Zoom connected Saturday, September 19, with viewers tuning successful from ticker parties each implicit the country, and was followed by a speech betwixt Richardson and Siri Hustvedt, besides a WDA founding member.
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