Hybrid Event: Neil King Jr, American Ramble

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Wednesday, Apr 5, 2023  7pm - 8pm

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East City Bookshop welcomes Neil King Jr. for a discussion of his book, American Ramble.

Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the authors during audience Q&A.

COVID-19 Information: Please note that East City Bookshop continuously monitors public health guidance to ensure the safety of customers, authors, and our staff and reserves the right to adjust in-person events. Masks are required for all in-person attendees.

ABOUT AMERICAN RAMBLE

A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.

Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency: A life-threatening bout with cancer. Political convulsions over a fraught election and our origins as a nation. A pandemic that shut down normal life and made social distance a virtue.

Determined to rediscover what matters in life, King, with only a small satchel of essentials, embarked on a life-changing 25-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries, over the Mason-Dixon line, past Quaker and Amish farms, along Valley Forge stream beds, atop a New Jersey trash mound, across New York Harbor, and finally, to his ultimate destination: the Ramble, where a tangle of pathways converge in Central Park. What unfurled is an extraordinary uncovering of America’s past and present, peering into the country’s overlooked regions and people, and, in the midst of extreme political divisions, revealing the profound power of our shared ground.

By turns amusing, inspiring, and sublime, American Ramble offers an exquisite account of personal and national renewal—an indelible study of our country as we’ve never seen it before.

NEIL KING JR. is a longtime Capitol Hill resident and former national political reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. A Colorado native, Neil is the founder and editor of Gotham Canoe, an online publication devoted to the outdoors. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal –the chronicle of a walk from Washington to New York City in the spring of 2021—is his first book.