NPR host Steve Inskeep to discuss new book on President Andrew Jackson, 6:30 pm May 28

Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR's Morning Edition, will discuss and sign copies of his new book, “Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab,” at a National Press Club Book Rap from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in the conference rooms.

Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the general public. Registration is required.

“Jacksonland” tells the history of President Andrew Jackson's long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.

Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two men, former military comrades, locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy.

One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson — war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South, whose first major initiative as president instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears.

The other is a half-forgotten figure: John Ross, a Cherokee politician and diplomat, who used the United States’ own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson.

Inskeep is a co-host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. His investigative journalism has received the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award, and the Alfred I. Dupont award. He is the author of “Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi.”