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NPC Book Rap featuring Gloria J. Browne-Marshall and "The Voting Rights War"
Sen. Bob Graham to discuss classified documents detailing Saudi Involvement in 9/11 Plot
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NPC Book Rap with Chuck Raasch, author of "Imperfect Union"
American Opioid and Heroin Crisis
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NPC Book Rap featuring "Seoul Man" Frank Ahrens
Toastmasters
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NPC Book Rap featuring Gary Vikan of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum
The National Press Club’s Book & Author Committee plans to present a Book Rap on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Conference Rooms featuring Gary Vikan, who led Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum for nearly two decades, as he reveals the shocking truth behind the world’s great museums with his memoir, Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director. Tickets are $5 for Press Club members; $10 for the public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit National Press Club Journalism Institute. No outside books or memorabilia are permitted. According to Vikan, many of the glittering…
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NPC Children's Book Rap: George Washington & The Magic Hat
Travel back in time to meet George Washington during a magical morning for the whole family at the National Press Club. On Saturday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m., the NPC's Book and Author Committee will present a family-friendly Book Rap with Deborah Kalb, author of The President and Me: George Washington and The Magic Hat. The Book Rap is $5 for Press Club members, $10 for non-members. All children are free. This event is a fundraiser for the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute so no outside books or memorabilia are allowed. The book, targeted to youngsters seven and up, tells the…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: David Maraniss - "A Good American Family"
Journalist David Maraniss, whose coverage of Bill Clinton as a presidential candidate earned a Pulitzer Prize, will discuss his latest book, “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father,” at a National Press Club Headliners breakfast event on Friday, May 17. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. with a light breakfast of coffee, tea, muffins and pastries. The program begins promptly at 9 a.m. Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, has written 11 books, including biographies of Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi, Al Gore and Roberto Clemente. In his twelfth book, he turns his journalist’s…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jean Case - "Be Fearless"
In her new book, “Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose,” Jean Case, Chairman of the National Geographic Society and CEO of the Case Foundation, draws from her own life’s journey and success stories of ordinary entrepreneurs to explain why - particularly in today’s crowded marketplace of ideas and information - it pays to be fearless. Case will share tips and inspiration at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m. This event will take place in the Club’s conference rooms and will feature a presentation by the author, an…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Andy Parker - "For Alison"
On August 26, 2015 reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward of CBS affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia were shot and killed while conducting a live television interview for WDBJ’s morning news program, Mornin’. Later that same day Andy Parker, shattered and shaken by the sudden loss of his young daughter Alison, went on Fox News to deliver a solemn promise: to do “whatever it takes to end gun violence in America.” From that day forward, Mr. Parker has worked tirelessly alongside activists like Astronaut Mark Kelly and Michael Bloomberg as an outspoken advocate for national gun…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Livestream will begin 1/24 at 6:30pm ET. New Date Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Zenger Room. Gilliam’s more than 60-year-career in journalism began in the segregated South where she made a name for herself reporting on the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas for the Tri-State Defender. In 1961 she became the first…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jason Rezaian & his new memoir "Prisoner"
Livestream will begin 2/11 at 7:00pm ET. The Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian, recipient of the National Press Club’s 2015 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, will share his highly-anticipated memoir "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Monday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Club’s Ballroom. Rezaian was serving as Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post in July 2014 when he was arrested by Iranian police, accused of…
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