To order "True Compass", visit: tinyurl.com Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor-in-chief of 12 Books, discusses his work with the late Senator Ted Kennedy on the recently published memoir True Compass. Mr. Karp is interviewed and takes national phone calls on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal."
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"Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era" Barack Obama's election marks a new era in US politics, Dr. White argues, based largely on many demographic changes. The event is at the Women's National Democratic Club.
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"The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness" Harlow Unger recounts the life of the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe (1751-1831). President Monroe served two-terms, was a decorated soldier in the Revolutionary War and held more public positions than anyone else in American history. His resume included tenures as a congressman and senator, a secretary of state and war, governor of Virginia, and a US minister to Britain and France. Harlow Unger ...
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"Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a Perfect Union" Mr. Swanson discusses how he believes the nation was "hijacked by the Bush administration" and the work he says the public must now do to repair the damage. The event is in Coral Gables, Florida.
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2009 National Book Awards - Interview with TJ Stiles author of "The First Tycoon" winner of the 2009 National Book Awards for Nonfiction An interview with TJ Stiles author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which was the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Stiles talks about his book prior to the start of the 2009 National Book Awards in New York City.
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"Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America" Craig Shirley, author of Reagan's Revolution, recounts Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Mr. Shirley follows President Reagan from his defeat for the presidency in 1976 to his election four years later over the incumbent President Jimmy Carter. The author interviewed over 150 participants from the presidential campaign from Reagan advisers to Jimmy Carter. Craig Shirley presents his book at the Ronald ...
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2009 National Book Awards - Interview with Sean Carroll author of "Remarkable Creatures," finalist for the 2009 National Book Awards for Nonfiction An interview with Sean Carroll author of Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species, which was nominated for the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Carroll talks about his book prior to the start of the 2009 National Book Awards in New York City.
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After Words: Nomi Prins, author of "It Takes a Pillage" interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders Nomi Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs and current senior fellow at Demos, talks about the 2008 financial crisis and its ongoing aftermath. This is the subject of her latest book, "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street." Ms. Prins discusses her book with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I). Prior to coming to the Senate in 2007 ...
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Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, recounts the life of Red Army chief Leon Trotsky. Mr. Patenaude examines Trotsky's political career, from his ascendancy as a young Marxist to a Bolshevik leader, whose feud with Joseph Stalin led to his being targeted for assassination during his exile in Mexico. Bertrand Patenaude discusses his book at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California.
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