Author Dick Lehr will discuss his book “The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War.: Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. Please note, this lecture was originally scheduled for February but postponed due to weather.

In 1915, two men- one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker- incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights.

Mr. Lehr, a former Boston Globe reporter, is a journalism professor at Boston University. He is the author of “The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide,” an Edgar Award finalist for best nonfiction. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner “Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal,” and its sequel, “Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss.”