Winchester Academy hosts WPR host

Brady Carlson will present “Dead Presidents: The Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Leaders” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 29, at the Waupaca Area Public Library.

The free program is sponsored by Winchester Academy of Waupaca and is open to the public.

Thirty-nine of U.S. presidents may be gone, but there’s a world of monuments, memorials, and more around the departed leaders.

Carlson calls this the world of the “post-post-presidency,” and for his book Dead Presidents, he set out to see it all.

Traveling to each presidential gravesite, he found stirring, often humorous- and occasionally stupefying ways Americans remember and honor their former chiefs of state.

As Carlson sees it, the dead presidents and the way Americans remember them say a great deal about U.S. history, and how we imagine our past and future. For American presidents, there is life after death – it’s just a little weird.

Carlson currently hosts All Things Considered on isconsin Public Radio, bringing state news to listeners every weekday afternoon.

Known nationally for his innovative efforts to engage with listeners, he and his colleagues won a national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2016 for their news series.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Benedictine University in Illinois and a master’s degree in visual and media arts from Emerson College in Boston.

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