September 9 - October 22
Robert Scheer: Author Tour
Location: West Coast, United States
Please join Nation Books author Robert Scheer as he travels to Washington, California and Oregon on an author tour to discuss his latest book, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In this enthralling exposé Robert Scheer shows that the great financial meltdown of our times was at its heart the result of an old-fashioned crime. A veteran reporter with exclusive access to whistle blowers, Scheer unravels the hidden story behind our financial calamity—one that goes beyond Wall Street and implicates some of the most powerful players in American politics. The Great American Stickup gets to the scene of the crime on Capitol Hill, where the culprits are still in charge of our economic destiny.
For more details of the book tour, please click here.
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September 16
|| 5:30 pm
Investigating Impunity After Katrina
Location: New York University, New York City
Please join us for "Investigating Impunity After Katrina," the launch event for The Backstory, a new monthly series of public conversations with investigative reporters and nonfiction authors affiliated with The Nation Institute. Investigative Fund reporter A.C. Thompson will discuss his award-winning reporting in New Orleans. (See Katrina's Hidden Race War and Body of Evidence, published in The Nation in January 2009.)
The Backstory is sponsored by The Nation Institute and NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Please RSVP to Marissa Colón-Margolies at marissa@nationbooks.org or (212) 822-0264.
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September 18
|| 1 pm
Author Talk: Wayne Karlin
Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
Please join Nation Books author Wayne Karlin as he discusses his book, Wandering Souls: Journeys With The Dead And The Living In Viet Nam at Washington, D.C.'s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on September 18 at 1 p.m.
Philosophy, Literature, and Sociology Reading Room
Room 220
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-727-0321
For more information about the event, please click here.
About the book:
On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer Steedly, Jr. turned a bend in a trail in the Pleiku Province and came face to face with a North Vietnamese soldier, his weapon slung over his shoulder. The two stared at each other for an instant: a split-second later, Homer’s bullets smashed into the chest of a young medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam.
In the dead man's pockets, Homer found a notebook filled with beautiful line drawings, which he sent back to his mother. Thirty-five years later, Homer opened the book and discovered the drawings of the man who had wanted to become a healer. He made a vow to return the book to the dead man's family if they could be found, and in seeking their forgiveness perhaps to find some release from the war that had defined his life.
Wandering Souls is the story of his return to Viet Nam. Award-winning author and fellow veteran Wayne Karlin accompanied Homer on this journey, one that awoke, and brought to rest Homer's painful memories of the war. With eloquence and deep understanding, Karlin reveals the startling similarities between the parallel lives of Homer and Dam; recounts Homer’s years of trauma and his slow movement towards a recovery that could only come about through confrontation with the ghosts of his past—and the need of Dam's family to bring their brother's "wandering soul" to peace. Karlin entwines their lives with the stories of Vietnamese and American writers, families, exiles and veterans met along the way, all of whom need to capture, contemplate and decipher meaning from their war.
Wandering Souls reminds us of the terrible price of war on soldiers and their loved ones, and reveals a way to heal not by forgetting war's hard lessons, but by remembering its costs.
About the Author:
Wayne Karlin is the author of numerous books including Lost Armies, The Wished-For Country, Rumors and Stones, Prisoners and Marble Mountain. He is also co-editor, with Le Minh Khue and Trong Vu, and contributor to The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. In 1998 he was awarded the Paterson Prize in Fiction, and in 2005 he received an Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America. Carlin lives in Maryland, where he teaches at the College of Southern Maryland.
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September 24 - October 5
Fatima Bhutto: Author Tour
Location: Across the United States
Please join Fatima Bhutto as she travels from New York to Massachusetts, Oregon and California on an author tour to discuss her new memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Fatima Bhutto's powerful new memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword, tells the story of a family of rich feudal landlords—the proud descendants of a warrior caste—who became power brokers in the newly created state of Pakistan. It is an epic tale full of the romance and legend of feudal life, the glamor and license of the international political elite and ultimately, the tragedy of four generations of a family defined by a political idealism that would destroy them.
For more details of the book tour, please click here.
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October 5
|| 7 pm
Herding Donkeys: Howard Dean and Ari Berman on the Future of the Democratic Party
Location: 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York City
It's Super Tuesday at 92Y Tribeca! With the midterm elections exactly a month away, Nation Institute Fellow Ari Berman talks about his new book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, with former Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean.
Herding Donkeys tells the inside story of Dean's visionary yet controversial 50-state strategy, charts his unpredictable journey from an insurgent presidential candidate in 2004 to the chairman and conscience of the Democratic Party and shows how President Obama's campaign—particularly its groundbreaking embrace of grassroots organizing and activism—built upon Dean's blueprint. Sure to be a fascinating and timely conversation, Dean and Berman will shed light on the upcoming November elections and the possibility and peril of this new era in American politics.
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel will introduce and moderate.
$12 general admission, $10 with valid student ID (one per customer).
To buy tickets, please click here.
Ari Berman is a political correspondent for The Nation and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and National Public Radio. He lives in New York City.
Howard Dean is a physician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1993 to 2003. He campaigned for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election and served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. He lives in Vermont.
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October 23 - January 16
Eugene Richards: Photo Exhibit
Location: Exhibition around the world
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer is the winner of the 2010 World Press Photo of the Year contest. Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on tour. The exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam as part of the award ceremony in April and can be seen at venues around the globe until the next year. The tour program takes in approximately 100 cities in 45 countries and is still expanding.
Richards won for "War is Personal," the series of eight photographic essays sponsored by The Investigative Fund.
For more information on the tour schedule, please click here. For more information on the contest, please click here.
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