I got to reenact the raid at Harper’s Ferry it’s never been dramatized.
And James found a way to make us laugh and see our common humanity.
The book threw people.
It was like, Wait you’ve got the option to make jokes about the great national wound?
Yes, you’re free to.
Why people call John Brown crazy
Well, because he murdered people.
You may not like him, but he was definitely sane they’re well-written letters, very persuasive.
Basing John Brown on his Texas-born granddad
Granddad, Judge Howard Lemuel Green, loved to declare.
He would practice speaking from the top of a tree and whenever he talked at you, he shouted.
When John Brown spoke, he would attempt to knock you out.
At 21 you think that being 50 would be such a lifetime away.
That’s part of what the wholeBeforetrilogy is about.
There’s a consistency to who we are that flows through time.
His daughter Maya Hawke’s success
It’s shocking.
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