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The new Dinner-with-the-Author program proceeds full steam ahead on Thursday, October 29, 2009. Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio correspondent to the Pentagon, will join us to discuss his balanced and thoughtful history, BACARDI AND THE LONG FIGHT FOR CUBA. Focusing on one of Cuba's liberal and influential families, he weaves together the personal with the historical. He is now working on a series on national security and extractive resources that he will be glad to discuss.
The dinner that follows on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 features Rick Atkinson and a twentieth-anniversary edition of his history of the West Point Class of 1966, THE LONG GRAY LINE, which describes the class that carried a great deal of the burden in the Vietnam War. Rick has written a new forward.
Each dinner is at Rock Creek Restaurant (in Mazza Gallery, costs $65 per person or $115 for a couple, and includes a paperback book. Please let Bonnie Kogod know if you would like to come: bkogod@politics-prose.com.
BACARDI AND THE LONG FIGHT FOR CUBA
The United States has had a perfect record of wrong policies toward Cuba. During 1870s there was a 10-year war for independence during which 50,000 Cubans and an astonishing 200,000 Spanish were killed. The Cubans were fighting to end slavery and liberate themselves from oppressive Spanish rule; they never received any assistance from the United States as told through one family, the rum family.
Our first dinner in our new program Dinner with the Author was a roaring success. We roared with laughter with Ron Suskind when he did his Nixon imitation. But Ron, whose latest book is THE WAY OF THE WORLD, can also bring you close to tears of frustration when he tells about how the Bush administration cooked the evidence of Al Qaeda involvement in Iraq. Ron talks the way he writes, with passion and empathy. Just as much fun was the opportunity to sit and talk with other P&P customers over a delicious dinner at Rock Creek Restaurant, just up the street at Friendship Heights. One participant said, “The people are so interesting.”