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Click www.politics-prose.com/event for our author events calendar through October.
Thursday, September 8, 7 p.m.
Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)
at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Citing globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and America’s pattern of energy consumption as the main threats to the country’s power and prosperity, the authors look to American history for guidance. Friedman, columnist and author of The World is Flat, and Mandelbaum, professor and director of the American Foreign Policy Program at SAIS, examine key turning points in the nation’s past and focus on the values that have seen us through.
We are no longer accepting pre-orders online or by phone. Will call opens at 6 p.m. for pre-purchased tickets and books. Please arrive early if you have not yet bought a ticket and wish to attend. One free ticket will be provided with each purchase of the book. Tickets may also be purchased without a book for $15.
Friday, September 9, 7 p.m.
Jim Woodring
Congress of the Animals (Fantagraphics, $19.99)
For his second graphic novel, the artist of Weathercraft gives Frank, his longtime short story protagonist, a more expansive arena, chronicling what ensues when Frank leaves The Unifactor. Escaping by way of an amusement park ride, Frank encounters things he’d never imagined.
Saturday, September 10, 1 p.m.
David W. Blight
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard Univ., $27.95)
1963 marked the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation; in the middle of the Cold War and the civil rights struggle, how did the nation view that landmark? In his history, Blight, author of A Slave No More and Race and Reunion, explores the Civil War legacy as four prominent writers viewed it in the sixties and as it is still evolving today, near the 150th anniversary of that war.
Saturday, September 10, 6 p.m.
Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda (Times, $27)
National security correspondents for The New York Times, the authors recount the evolution of America’s struggle against Al Qaeda from the initial “war on terror” to a more nuanced approach. Using Cold War deterrence strategy, for instance, military, intelligence, and security analysts have fashioned new ways to restrict the terrorists’ range of operations.
Sunday, September 11, 1 p.m.
Charles Kurzman
The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists (Oxford Univ., $24.95)
Too often portrayed as angry jihadists eager to do battle with the West, the popular image of Muslims is seriously at odds with reality, Kurzman argues. Using statistics (there are over a billion Muslims in the world today, yet the number of Muslim terrorists is small) and pointing to militants' publications and websites, Kurzman shows that terrorism is in fact marginal in the Muslim world.
Sunday, September 11, 5 p.m.
Charles C. Mann
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Knopf, $30.50)
The author of the best-selling 1491, the story of pre-Colombian America, here looks at the enormous impact of the European arrival in the New World. The ramifications were global: while trade altered the balance of power and wealth among nations, the Colombian Exchange, often unknowingly, transferred species of plants and animals from one place to another, radically changing lives and landscapes.
Monday September 12, 7 p.m.
George Pelecanos
The Cut (Reagan Arthur, $25.99)
Pelecanos, author of a host of D.C.-based crime novels, from A Firing Offense to The Way Home, introduces a new series featuring Spero Lucas. Fresh from service in Iraq, Lucas hires on with a defense attorney, for whom he specializes in recovering stolen property. When a big-shot crime boss notices Lucas’s talent, Lucas has to decide what cut—if any—is enough to risk his life for.
Tuesday, September 13, 10 a.m.
The store will open at 10 a.m. in order to accomodate a staff meeting. The coffeehouse will open at the usual time of 8 a.m.
Tuesday, September 13, 7 p.m.
Panel event with Elliott Woods, Olga Grushin, Robin Wright, and Steve Coll
Granta 116: 10 Years Later (Grove/Granta, $16.99)
P&P is honored to partner with Granta in sponsoring a panel discussion examining the decade since 9/11 through a literary, political, and cultural lens. Join Elliott Woods, Olga Grushin, Robin Wright, and Steve Coll for what promises to be an unusual and illuminating forum about how one global event has altered our world.
Wednesday, September 14, 7 p.m.
Calvin Trillin
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff (Random House, $27)
Trillin’s humor knows no bounds. From politics to driving etiquette, meals to economics, family life to current events, he’s a wealth of wit and elegant commentary—often in rhyme. This collection draws from all periods of his more than forty years in print, featuring essays, columns, and poems.
Thursday September 15, 10:30 a.m.
Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
Zora and Me (Candlewick, $16.99)
Awarded the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award, this book is set in 1900 in Eatonville, Florida, where the writer Zora Neale Hurston grew up. The summer before fourth grade, Hurston and her friend try to solve a local murder, asking questions the adults in their segregated community don’t want to answer. Ages 10-14.
Thursday, September 15, 5 - 9 p.m.
Google eBooks Information Session
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Thursday, September 15, 7 p.m.
Justin Torres
We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18)
Torres’s debut novel is the story of three brothers growing up in upstate New York. Related in sharp, swift episodes, the narrative evokes the intimacy of a close family even as time and the boys’ energy propel them each in new directions.
Thursday, September 15, 7 p.m.
Ellen Hopkins
Perfect (McElderry, $18.99)
at the Bethesda Library
7400 Arlington Rd, Bethesda, MD
What is the price of perfection? Using poetry, Hopkins tells the stories of five young adults who strive to be perfect. Some are trying to meet adult expectations, others covet perfect bodies, top athletic performance, or fame. Whatever their goals, all the characters pay a price. Ages 14 and up.
Friday, September 16, 9 a.m. - Sunday, September 18, 8 p.m.
P&P Fall Member Sale
All weekend long, Politics & Prose members receive discounts on nearly everything currently in stock. Most books are 20% off, most CDs and DVDs are 15% off. If you are not yet a member, it's a great time to sign up and take advantage of these and other discount opportunities.
The same discount terms will also be applied to shopping completed online when members purchase items currently on our shelves between Friday, September 16, 12:01 a.m. and Sunday, September 18, 11:59 p.m.
Please note: For online orders, selecting "Pay in Store" will obtain the member discount only if the purchase is completed by close of business on Sunday, September 12.
Friday, September 16, 7 p.m.
Sylvia Nasar
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (Simon & Schuster, $35)
Nasar follows her bestselling biography, A Beautiful Mind, by showing thinkers in action. From Alfred Marshall walking around Dickens’s London to Sen in today’s India, Nasar’s narrative history of political economics lays out the challenges society has faced since the industrial revolution proved that socio-economic status wasn’t a given, but lay within human power to change.
Saturday, September 17, 6 p.m.
Michael Kazin
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Knopf, $27.95)
A history of the United States as seen by its reformers, idealists, and radicals, the latest book by the Georgetown professor and author of A Godly Hero starts with the abolitionists and traces leftist thought through women’s suffrage, the labor movement, anarchism, socialism, and on to Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore.
Sunday, September, 18, 5 p.m.
Jim Lehrer
Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain (Random House, $26)
Having presided over eleven televised presidential and vice-presidential debates (events characterized as “tension city” by President George H. W. Bush), Lehrer brings a wealth of experience and perspective to this history of the election ritual. He discusses rhetoric and flubbed lines, technical failures and the roles of moderators, and offers an inside look at the memorable moments. This event is co-sponsored by the 2011 Fall for the Book Festival. More information at www.fallforthebook.org.
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Caroline Kennedy and Michael Beschloss
Arlington Central Library Auditorium
Wednesday, September 21, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Singer/guitarist/composer PJ Harvey won the Mercury Prize (Great Britain’s award for best album of the year) for Let England Shake (Island Records, $14.98).