Author Talk: Andrew Carroll, 'My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War'

Andrew Carroll’s book (published by Penguin in April 2017) My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War draws on a rich trove of letters and diaries to create a vivid and moving account of Americans in World War I. Foremost is an intimate portrait of U.S. General John Pershing, who led American troops in Europe.
 
Pershing surmounted enormous obstacles to build an army and ultimately command millions of U.S. soldiers. Often perceived as a harsh, humorless, and wooden leader, Pershing concealed his inner agony from those around him.
 
Carroll edited the New York Times bestsellers War Letters, Letters of a Nation, and Behind the Lines. War Letters inspired am acclaimed PBS documentary and an audio version that was nominated for a Grammy. He also edited Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, which  inspired the film 'Operation Homecoming” (nominated in 2007 for an Oscar and winner of an Emmy Award).
 
He co-founded, with the late Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, the American Poetry & Literacy Project, which has given away more than 1 million free books in schools, hospitals, train stations, airports, hotels, and other public places. In 1998, Carroll founded the Legacy Project, which honors veterans and active-duty troops by preserving their wartime correspondence. Andrew has traveled to all 50 states and more than 40 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and he has collected, to date, an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters (and emails) from every war in U.S. history. Andrew donated this massive collection to Chapman University.

Free admission. Book signing to follow.