Tucson Festival of Books

History Is Not Destiny


Throughout U.S. history, individuals and groups have worked to influence the course of American democracy and equality. This panel of authors will show how past decisions have shaped the nation and highlight the people who challenged that history in pursuit of a more perfect union.


Panelists
Cynthia Levinson

Cynthia Levinson is the award-winning author of numerous nonfiction books for young readers and the winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, the Jane Addams Book Award, and an NAACP Image Award honor....

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Sanford Levinson

Sanford Levinson teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, and foreign and international law. Levinson has authored approximately 450 articles, book reviews, and commentaries in professional and popular journals, as well as seven books....

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Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner is the author of nine nonfiction books, including "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book of 2020, and "The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War....

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Books:
Fault Lines in the Constitution
The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today
Cynthia Levinson, Sanford Levinson
Teen
Peachtree Publishing Company Incorporated
July 2025
ISBN 9781682638040
320 pages
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The Road was Full of Thorns
Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War
Tom Zoellner
History / Biography
The New Press
September 2025
ISBN 9798893850086
329 pages
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