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UNUM Chat: Ken Burns and Drew Faust

Ken Burns and former Harvard President Drew Faust discuss the social movements that defined 20th-century America, how their lives intersected with major events in the country’s history, and the friendship with Rep. John Lewis that inspired life-long work in education, civics and democracy. Faust’s new book, NECESSARY TROUBLE, takes its title from a statement Rep. John Lewis often made about the fi

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