NPR's Steve Inskeep to discuss Andrew Jackson at May 28 Book Rap

National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep will discuss his new book “Jacksonland,” the narrative history of two men — President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross — who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history, at a May 28 NPC Book Rap in the conferencerRooms.

Tickets are $5 for NPC members and $10 for the general public. Register at www.press.org/events/inskeep. Members can also pre-order the book and have the fee waived, an option that appears on the ticket form.

Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis.At its center stood two former military comrades, 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, and Ross — a Cherokee politician and diplomat, locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our democracy.

Inskeep is a co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. He has won an Edward R. Murrow award, a Robert F. Kennedy journalism award, and an Alfred I. Dupont award. He is the author of “Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi.”