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Mariners Museum Announces Author Lecture Series – An Evening with John Waugh

Join The Mariners’ Museum on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 7 P.M. for an evening program with award-winning Civil War author John Waugh. Author of The Class of 1846 (1994) and Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency (2001), Waugh will discuss his new book Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Relationship between a President and His General (2010).

Lincoln and McClellan is an in-depth look at the relationship between a pair of mismatched men who briefly controlled the fate of the nation during its greatest trial. This relationship came to a head after McClellan’s failed 1862 Peninsula Campaign and his subsequent dismissal by Lincoln. Author James McPherson has called Waugh’s latest work a “stimulating new book about the most puzzling personality of the Civil War….”.

The event is $4 for Museum Members; $5 for non-members.

The Mariners’ Museum, an educational, non-profit institution accredited by the American Association of Museums, preserves and interprets maritime history through an international collection of ship models, figureheads, paintings and other maritime artifacts. The museum is open from 10 A.M. until 5 P.M. Wednesday through Saturday, and 12 to 5 P.M. Sunday. It will be closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. For information, visit www.MarinersMuseum.org, call (757) 596-2222 or (800) 581-7245, or write to The Mariners’ Museum, 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606.

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