Dear Michlib-l, Please join us at 7:00 pm on December 9, 2020 as we host author Miles Harvey for a lively discussion of the book Nathaniel Philbrick called “a masterpiece” and Dave Eggers “ludicrously enjoyable,” The King of Confidence. Please find the event description below: Jesse James Strang is a little known but captivating figure in Michigan history who, until his assassination in 1856, rules over a breakaway Mormon colony on Lake Michigan’s Beaver Island, where he was crowned “King of Earth and Heaven.” King Strang, as the press delighted in calling him, tried his hand at various roguish trades - lawyer, newspaperman, prophet, pirate, state legislator - but this true gift was for the pure flimflam of American celebrity. Author Miles Harvey will give an engaging talk based on his book about Strang, “The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False, Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch.” Harvey is a national and international best selling author whose other books include The Island of Lost Maps and Painter in a Savage Land. To attend, please register at https://bit.ly/3lqxF3K. Thanks and hope to that you can make it! Best, Mick Howey Adult Services Librarian Baldwin Public Library mick.howey@baldwinlib.org -- ----- Mick Howey, MLIS Adult Services Librarian Baldwin Public Library 300 West Merrill Street Birmingham, MI 48009 (248) 554-4649 https://www.baldwinlib.org/ Currently Reading <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/72296780?utm_medium=reading_link&utm_source=email_signature> [image: Book Cover] <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/72296780?utm_medium=cover&utm_source=email_signature> [image: Goodreads Logo] <https://www.goodreads.com/?utm_medium=gr_logo&utm_source=email_signature>Get your own email signature <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_instructions?utm_medium=gyo_link&utm_source=email_signature>