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NPC Headliners Book Event: Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman, "Our Unfinished March"
Former Attorney General Eric Holder and New York Times bestselling author Sam Koppelman will discuss their new book, “Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote,” at a Headliners Book Event on May 12 at 2 p.m. In the book, Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Koppelman describe three dramatic fights for the right to vote, first by white men, then by white women, and finally by African Americans, and the ways the right to vote has lost ground since. The book ends with a plan for reversing voter suppression, and transforming…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, "This Will Not Pass"
New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns will discuss their best-selling book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future” at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, June 14 at 6 p.m.. The book delivers a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential election and the first year of the Biden presidency. The book explores how both parties confronted unprecedented events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and gives an insider look at political decision-making and deal making in…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Robert Samuels, "His Name is George Floyd"
Washington Post reporter Robert Samuels will discuss his book, “His Name is George Floyd” at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book Event on Thursday, June 23 at 6 p.m.. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020 set off a series of protests in the United States and around the world, awakening millions to widespread abuses in the nation’s police forces. Samuels and co-author Toluse Olorunnipa draw on more than 400 interviews, with the friends and family who knew Floyd best, and those who were with him when he died, to explore Floyd’s…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Daniela Pierre-Bravo, "The Other"
Bestselling author and MSNBC reporter Daniela Pierre-Bravo will discuss her new book, “The Other” at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book Event on Thursday, September 15 at 6 PM. In “The Other,” Pierre-Bravo shares her journey as an undocumented immigrant from Chile, working odd jobs to pay her way through school. Pierre-Bravo, always conscious of her status as an outsider, writes that she became a “chameleon” to fit into professional environments. Her book aims to help women of color and children of immigrants to reshape how they see themselves in the workplace by providing a…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Scott Higham & Sari Horwitz with special guest Beth Macy - “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry”
Award-winning "Dopesick" author and journalist Beth Macy will join Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz for a discussion of their new books on the opioid crisis in America at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book and Author event on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. Higham and Horwitz will discuss their new book, “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry, which takes a hard look at the role drug companies played in the epidemic of opioid addiction. Macy, the author of the bestselling "Dopesick" and a writer and a…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Major Garrett and David Becker, "The Big Truth"
Less than a month before the midterm elections, CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and David Becker, one of the nation's leading elections experts, will discuss their new book, "The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of THE BIG LIE," at a National Press Club headliners book event on Tuesday, October 11 at 6:30 PM. Garrett and Becker's new book examines the potentially dire consequences for the 2022 midterms and beyond. Filled with interviews with key players — election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md), Georgia…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss and Brian Friedberg, "MEME WARS"
One of the leading experts on media and disinformation, Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Policy at Harvard, will be joined by co-authors Emily Dreyfuss and Brian Friedberg at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book Event on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6:30 PM. Donovan, Dreyfuss and Friedberg will discuss their new book “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America” that dives into how bad actors are using hate-based memes and social media to spread disinformation online and to organize various communities…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Owen Ullmann, "Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All"
Veteran Washington journalist Owen Ullmann will share insights about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the subject of his new biography, "Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m. Yellen is the first person to hold all three of America’s top economic policy positions: Treasury Secretary (the first woman to hold the job), chair of the Federal Reserve (also the first woman to hold the job) and of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In "Empathy…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Former Sen. Gary Hart, reporter James Risen to discuss “The Last Honest Man"
Former Sen. Gary Hart will join two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen on June 5 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss Risen’s new book, “The Last Honest Man,” which explores the Church Committee, a special Senate panel convened in 1975 to investigate the federal government’s clandestine programs, including the CIA’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and the FBI’s role in the killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Other panelists include co-author Tom Risen and former Church Committee staff members Peter Fenn, Frederick Baron, Rick Inderfurth and Loch Johnson. Congressional staffers…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Sean Carberry “Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home"
Former NPR reporter and veteran foreign correspondent Sean Carberry will offer his unique perspective on life in several war zones when he discusses his new book, “Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. From 2007 through 2014, Carberry traveled the world reporting from war zones and fragile states for public radio. He spent time in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Congo, Colombia, Kosovo, and Sudan and other rough neighborhoods before settling down in Afghanistan in 2012. There, he served as NPR…
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