From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century.

In Into the Bright Sunshine, Samuel G. Freedman examines Hurbert Humphrey's early political career, when his efforts to promote racial justice not only transformed the Democratic Party but the nation as well.

Freedman will sit down with Kerry Sheridan, co-host of All Things Considered on WUSF 89.7 to discuss the journey of Humphrey’s life from a remote, all-white hamlet in South Dakota to the mayoralty of Minneapolis as he tackles its notorious racism and anti-Semitism to his role as a national champion of multiracial democracy.

Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning professor, columnist, and author of nine acclaimed books. Freedman was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1981 through 1987. From 2004 through 2008, he wrote the paper's "On Education" column, winning first prize in the Education Writers Association's annual competition in 2005. From 2006 through 2016, Freedman wrote the "On Religion" column, receiving the Goldziher Prize for Journalists in 2017 for a series of columns about Muslim-Americans that had been published over the preceding six years. As a professor of journalism at Columbia University, Freedman has been named the nation's outstanding journalism educator by the Society of Professional Journalists and received Columbia's coveted Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Kerry Sheridan is a co-host of All Things Considered on WUSF 89.7, the NPR member station in Sarasota and Tampa, and reports on health and education. Prior to joining WUSF, she was a reporter for Agence France-Presse for 14 years, covering breaking news in the Middle East, national news in Washington and health, science, environmental news in Florida. She’s the author of “Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band’s True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery,” a book that took shape in Samuel G. Freedman's Book Writing Seminar at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.