Thinking Aloud

Joseph Crespino, the Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, traces the origins and evolution of Atticus Finch, the iconic patriarch from Harper Lee's 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird. Crespino won both the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award and 2007 McLemore Prize for his book In Search of Another Country and is also author to the book Strom Thurmond's America.