Tom Wicker discusses his Civil War novel, Unto This Hour

In Memoriam: Tom Wicker The Open Mind

Premiered April 27, 2013
In Memoriam: Tom Wicker

Today we celebrate the New York Times late, great reporter, editor and columnist Tom Wicker, who died in November, 2011 at age 85. The following Open Mind about his Civil War novel, Unto This Hour, was first broadcast in 1984.

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