Events

In this follow-up to Toxic Talk, his look at the right-wing media’s control of the political debate, Press focuses on how the right’s rhetoric has escalated to the point of slander. While personal attacks on a president are nothing new, Press argues that the volume of unsubstantiated assertions against President Obama—often driven by corporate interests—breaks new ground.

Impressive as it was, the successful strike against bin Laden was the exception to, rather than the rule of, U.S. military-intelligence operations, Aid argues. In his comprehensive look at the country’s massive spy network, from policy to technology, personnel to budget, the author of The Secret Sentry, investigates the gap between the resources devoted to intelligence and the often disappointing results.

Join four writers for a discussion about the challenges and rewards of writing for young adults. Participants include Marie Lu, whose new novel is Legend; Beth Revis, author of A Million Suns, the second volume in her Across The Universe Trilogy; Andrea Cremer, who concludes her Nightshade Trilogy with Bloodrose; and Jessica Spotswood, whose Born Wicked inaugurates her Cahill Witch Chronicles.

A sharp observer of American politics from across the pond, Stanley, an Oxford historian, has the necessary critical distance to deliver a thorough and balanced account of the life of Pat Buchanan, the controversial conservative, three-time presidential candidate, and Republican insider who became a populist outsider. Stanley will be in-conversation with Pat Buchanan. Both Stanley and Buchanan will sign books.

Timothy Snyder - Thinking the Twentieth Century

Franze’s debut thriller is a tale of murder, corruption, and unbridled ambition set in the marble halls and secluded corridors of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Being repeatedly uprooted makes childhood difficult; the challenges are compounded when your father is a covert CIA operative. In her memoir of life abroad during the Cold War, Taber, a literary journalist and author of Bread of Three Rivers, recounts the dual stories of her own efforts to establish an identity and her father’s struggle to come to terms with an America he grew increasingly disenchanted with.