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This rare celestial event-a total solar eclipse-offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system’s most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains.

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning journalist and former NPR correspondent DAVID BARON for a discussion of his book, American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World. Andrew Leland at Harvard Book Store (7/27).Shastri Akella at Harvard Book Store (7/24).

Colson Whitehead at Memorial Church (7/19).Ann Beattie at Harvard Book Store (7/18).Nicole Flattery at Harvard Book Store (7/14).Kate Storey at Harvard Book Store (7/7).

Leah Elson at Harvard Book Store (6/29).

Artem Mozgovoy at Harvard Book Store (6/28).

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Nash Jenkins at Harvard Book Store (6/22).

Sarah Viren at Harvard Book Store (6/21).

Mattie Kahn at Harvard Book Store (6/20).

Leah and Richard Rothstein at the Brattle Theatre (6/15).

Ali Hazelwood at the Brattle Theatre (6/14).

Ocean Vuong at First Parish Church (6/12).

Stephanie Crease at Harvard Book Store (6/5).

Elliot Ackerman at Harvard Book Store (6/2).

Jonathan Papernick at Harvard Book Store (6/1).

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Susan Rubin Suleiman at Harvard Book Store (5/30).

George Lakey at Harvard Book Store (5/24).

Rachel Louise Snyder at Harvard Book Store (5/23).

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Kay Redfield Jamison at the Cambridge Public Library (5/22).

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith at Harvard Book Store (5/19).