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Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan on "How Schools Work"
Arne Duncan, the former Secretary of Education under President Obama, will share his new book How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest Serving Secretaries of Education at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Thursday, September 20 at 10:00 a.m. in the Club’s conference rooms. In How Schools Work, Duncan calls on his nearly three decades of experience working in education to demonstrate how and why our education system has remained broken for so long, and calls parents, teachers, and students to action to demand more of America’s…
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Exploring "The Attachment Effect" with Author Peter Lovenheim
How secure are you? How anxious? The explanation behind your answers to these questions might point all the way back to your beginning and the bonds you formed as a baby. Award-winning journalist and author Peter Lovenheim spent years researching attachment theory for his new book The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives. On Thursday, June 7 at 5:30 p.m., Lovenheim will appear at a National Press Club Headliners book event to help us understand our own attachment styles and how they affect the way we interact with the rest of the…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Harris Faulkner, "9 Rules of Engagement"
Harris Faulkner, anchor of Fox News Channel’s Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the network’s talk show Outnumbered, will share her new book 9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Thursday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the club’s conference rooms. Faulkner’s story centers on the military ideals instilled in her by her father, a decorated career officer who served three tours of duty in Vietnam, and how her military upbringing shaped and prepared her for life’s challenges. Faulkner supplements her…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dan Kennedy, "The Return of the Moguls"
With the proliferation of high-speed broadband internet over the last half-century, reporters at major daily and weekly newspapers in cities and communities all over America found themselves writing the obits for their own print publications. Unable to retain readership and therefore unable to rake in revenue from advertisers, print publications became increasingly unprofitable and unattractive to potential investors. But then something strange happened – a new generation of media moguls with deep pockets decided to buy-in to the newspaper business. Dan Kennedy, author of “The Return of the…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Salena Zito & Brad Todd, "The Great Revolt"
Salena Zito and Brad Todd, co-authors of “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Wednesday, May 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the club’s conference rooms. Zito and Todd traveled over 27,000 miles to interview more than three hundred Trump voters across ten swing counties to paint a picture of the new populist-conservative coalition: a complex mix of citizens from different economic classes with varying backgrounds and education levels. The authors use Zito’s reports from the field and Todd’s analysis of…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Fox News Channel's Bret Baier, "Three Days in Moscow"
Bret Baier, Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, will share his latest book Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the club’s conference rooms. In Three Days in Moscow Baier uses the 1988 Moscow Summit, President Reagan’s pivotal final meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, to examine the life and legacy of President Reagan and his arduous battle with the Soviet Union through a new lens. This event will feature…
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NPC Headliners Film Screening & Discussion: "Chappaquiddick"
It was the weekend that forever changed American politics - and yet it has largely been forgotten decades later. That is, until the release of the critically acclaimed new movie Chappaquiddick this spring. Chappaquiddick is the story of a young woman's accidental death, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's fall from grace, the end of presidential ambitions within a political dynasty, and an event that forever changed American history. The film, directed by John Curran, and starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms and Bruce Dern earned rave reviews and sparked discussions about the beginning of modern…
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NPC General Membership Meeting
The meeting will be livecast here (login required).
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci
As the Trump Administration continues to break records for White House staff turnover (it is the highest of any Presidential Administration in decades according to the Brookings Institution), Anthony Scaramucci, the man who currently holds the record for the shortest stint as a White House staffer, will comment on current events and the recent shake-ups and the culture of chaos that has taken root in President Trump’s cabinet at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, April 26 at 10 a.m. Scaramucci, the founder and former co-managing partner of the investment firm SkyBridge…
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Jesse J. Holland Shares Superhero Novel Featuring The Black Panther
Just days after the release of the highly-anticipated “Black Panther” film, Award-winning journalist and author Jesse J. Holland will share his celebrated novel featuring the superhero, Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, February 27 at 6:30pm. In Black Panther Holland retells the classic origin of T’Challa, the original Black Panther who first appeared in American comic books published by Marvel Comics back in 1966, and updates it for the new century. This event will feature a discussion with the author, an audience question-and…
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