Veteran journalist **Dick Lehr** talks about his new book, _Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War_. Lehr delves into a little-known episode of Boston’s history when the white citizenry of the city that prides itself on its abolitionist roots flocked to see a film that glorified the KKK, despite NAACP's unsuccessful campaign to ban the film.
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Professor Lehr is a veteran journalist and author who worked at the Boston Globe for nearly two decades, where he was primarily an investigative reporter but also served as a magazine, legal affairs and feature writer. He has won numerous national and regional journalism and book awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting.