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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
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 Monday, January 14 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 black woman reporter for the Washington Post and worked…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: "After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings"
Award-winning journalist Thomas Kapsidelis and Virginia Tech massacre survivor Kristina Anderson will explore the experiences of survivors in the decade following the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s conference rooms. The event marks the debut of After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings, a book by Kapsidelis that chronicles the aftermath of the April 16, 2007 rampage by a lone gunman that killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors. Then the nation’s…
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Pulitzer Prize Winner David Cay Johnston: "The Making of Donald Trump"
Prime Time: A Conversation with NPR’s Susan Stamberg
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Del Quentin Wilber "A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad"
New Fairfax County Program "Diversion First" looked at as a National Model
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NPC Book Rap: Peter Bergen - "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists"
NPC Book Rap: Peter Bergen - "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists"
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Book Rap: Chen Guangcheng "The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China"
Chen Guangcheng will discuss and sign copies of his memoir “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China.” The event includes an author discussion, Q&A from the audience, and book signing. Tickets are $5 for NPC members; $10 public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit NPC Journalism Institute. After years of being under house arrest, Chinese political activist Chen Guangcheng - a blind, self-taught lawyer -climbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. Days later, he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing, and after a round of…
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Book Rap: Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger "ISIS: The State of Terror"
Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger, two of America’s leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism, will discuss their book "ISIS: The State of Terror." Tickets are $5 NPC members; $10 public. NPC members should login for the promo code. The event includes a discussion, Q&A from the audience, and book signing. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit NPC Journalism Institute. No outside books or memorabilia permitted. All sales are final; no refunds will be issued. Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into…
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Book Rap: Dana Perino "And the Good News Is... Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side"
Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush and current co-host of The Five, will discuss and sign copies of her new book “And the Good News Is... Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side.” The event includes an author discussion, Q&A from the audience, and book signing. Tickets are $5 for NPC members; $10 public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit NPC Journalism Institute. “And the Good News Is...” traces Dana Perino’s unlikely journey through politics, the White House, and television. From her years as a press secretary for President George W.…
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Book Rap: Rick Beyer & Elizabeth Sayles "The Ghost Army of World War II"
Historian Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles will discuss and sign copies of their latest book “The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery.” In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effects records, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, their job…
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Book Rap: Congressman John Lewis & Andrew Aydin - "March: Book Two"
Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin will discuss and sign copies of the new second volume in their #1 bestselling graphic novel trilogy, "March," a first-hand account of Lewis’ experiences as a key figure of the civil rights movement, drawn by award-winning artist Nate Powell. After the success of the Nashville sit-in movement, John Lewis’ commitment to change through nonviolence is stronger than ever — but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and…
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