An Evening with Robert P. Watson, 24 June | Event in Coral Gables | AllEvents

An Evening with Robert P. Watson

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Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (GMT-04:00)

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265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States

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An Evening with Robert P. Watson
Join us to hear Robert P. Watson discussing his book, REBELS AT THE GATES

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Books & Books is proud to present an evening with Robert P. Watson discussing Rebels at the Gates: The Confederacy's Final Gamble and the Battle to Save Washington (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, $45)


***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event.



About the Book:

Rebels at the Gate chronicles an intriguing series of events that nearly changed American history. In the last full year of the Civil War, Washington, DC came within hours of being invaded and Lincoln within inches of being shot.

During the summer of 1864, General Ulysses Grant was laying siege to Petersburg (near Richmond), deploying every available Union soldier in an effort to end the bloody war once and for all. His counterpart, General Robert E. Lee and his famed Army of Northern Virginia, were trapped inside Richmond, and recognized that the Confederate capital would fall. Lee knew Grant, and understood that he would never stop attacking until he had Richmond. It was then that the southern commander hatched a desperate and bold plan to save the Confederacy and perhaps bring the war to an end... but on the Confederacy's terms.

Historian Robert Watson provides the definitive account of this largely forgotten attack on and defense of Washington--and the fascinating events surrounding the battle.



About the Author:

Robert P. Watson, Distinguished Professor of History at Lynn University is the author of many books on American politics and history including, most recently, America's First Plague: The 1793 Epidemic that Crippled a Young Nation (R&L, 2023): Escape! The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Pr*son and the Civil War's Largest J*il Break (R&L, 2021), George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2021), The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution (Da Capo Press, 2017, and The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (Da Capo Press, 2016), which is currently being made into a motion picture. He resides in Boca Raton, Florida.


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An Evening with Robert P. Watson, 24 June | Event in Coral Gables | AllEvents
An Evening with Robert P. Watson
Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
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