Frank Larsell Lecture: Dr. Nicholas Buccola on “Goldwater, King, & the Meaning of Freedom”

Located at Linfield University, in the Nicholson Library, Austin Reading Room

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Open to the Public.

Please join us for the 2026 Frank Larsell lecture. Author Nicholas Buccola tells the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom—and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics. Buccola is professor of government and the Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton), which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass.