America has been founded not once, but twice, according to Eric Foner, one of the nation’s foremost historians. At this year's festival he discusses his newest book, "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution."
John Grisham is America's most popular writer of legal thrillers. "The Guardians" is his hair-raising thriller about wrongful convictions, and "Camino Winds" is a light-hearted novel about a murder investigation undertaken by a bookseller.
Chelsea Clinton discusses her new book, "She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game," which features women athletes who overcame odds and inspired the world.
N.K. Jemisin's newest fantasy novel, “The City We Became,” is very much a New York story. The author notes in her festival video that, despite being an enormous city spread out over five boroughs, “New Yorkers look out for each other.”