Nathaniel Hawthorne’s America, 200 years later. The aloof author of some of this nation’s best-loved and most maudlin morality tales is still the star of high school syllabi everywhere. Why his message resonates as loudly now as it did in his day.

Guests:

Philip McFarland, author of “Hawthorne in Concord”

Brenda Wineapple, author of “Hawthorne: A Life.”