This event features filmmaker and author John Sayles discussing his new novel, Crucible, with Professor Jerry Carlson. Sayles has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and once for the National Book Award. John Sayles’ Crucible is a complex and vast historical novel about Henry Ford — the Elon Musk of his day, in more ways than one — and his attempt to rule not only an automotive empire but the rambunctious city of Detroit. It is an epic tale ranging from the 1920s through the second World War, featuring violent labor disputes, misbegotten jungle expeditions, a tragic race riot, and the Gestapo tactics of Ford’s private army.
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