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Tonight's the night for the NPC Book Fair. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
The region's premiere holiday book event returns Friday evening for its 41st year! The National Press Club Journalism Institute is again partnering with landmark local book seller Politics & Prose for a night of pols, pundits and prose. Authors will be on hand to talk to their fans and sign books at this exciting literary event. Patrons can browse for books at the Club’s headquarters from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Authors include Red Truck Bakery's Brian Notes, historian David Margolick, USA Today's Eileen Rivers, former Club President Gill Klein and Club favorites Eleanor Herman, Marvin…
Type: News
Sasse doubts Trump will face major GOP challenger in 2020
President Donald Trump is unlikely to face a major GOP challenger in 2020, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-NE, said Wednesday at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon. Trump “has basically captured the majority of the Republican Party over the course of the last two and one-half years, Sasse said. "The Republican electorate is pretty comfortable with the anti positions” that Trump takes on a lot issues. In discussing his new book, “THEM:Why We Hate Each Other —and How to Heal,” Sasse told the audience that the “free press is not an enemy of the American people,” but are instead living out a First…
Type: News
The 1988 Presidential Campaign
Mr. Cramer, who travelled with the presidential candidates in the 1988 presidential election, spoke about the book that he wrote of his experiences. He also compared the current campaign to that of 1988.
Type: Media
Can your fellow journos act? Find out when NPC members and McLean Drama Co. actors join for an evening of dramatic plays, Nov. 9
The National Press Club, in association with the McLean Drama Company(MDC), will host the premiere performance of “NPC/MDC Theater,” featuring a series of three award-winning, ten-minute plays performed by Club members alongside actors and directors from the McLean Drama Company. This spirited event will be held in the Cosgrove Lounge on Friday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. The small ensemble cast of Club members and MDC actors will be directed by Carol Arthur of Studio Theater/MDC and Andrew Quilpa- The Coil Project/ MDC. This will be a casual evening of drinks, conversation and…acting! Scheduled in…
Type: News
Acclaimed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses "Leadership in Turbulent Times" at NPC Luncheon today
On the eve of the 2018 midterm elections, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will share her seventh and latest book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Monday. In her book, Goodwin revisits the four presidents she has studied most closely – Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson – to explore the shared traits, values, and abilities that afforded each of these men the opportunity to sit in the country’s highest office, and provide a modern-day road…
Type: News
All that reading will make you hungry! Reserve your spot at the Annual Book Fair Roast Beef Buffet, tonight
National Press Club members and their guests are invited to the Annual Book Fair and Author Night Roast Beef Buffet on Friday, Nov. 2. The buffet opens at 5:30 p.m. in the Reliable Source. Stop in for a hearty meal either before or after you visit the Club's popular pre-holiday book fair. The price of the Roast Beef Buffet is $25 for Club members and $32 for non-members, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are encouraged because this event usually sells out. Please contact us at 202-662-7443 or e-mail at [email protected] Please note: There will be no Taco Night due to NPCJI Annual Book Fair and…
Type: News
Vaccine expert Paul Offit takes on anti-vaccine celebrities, politicians in new book
When Paul Offit was five years old, he tied a towel around his neck, leaped into the air, tried to fly like Superman, and hit the ground hard. “That didn’t prove that I could never fly like Superman,” he explained to an audience at a Headliners’ Book Rap Oct. 29 at the National Press Club. “Just that I didn’t fly during that attempt." Offit, now a doctor and an award-winning expert on vaccines, immunology and virology, told the story to illustrate why scientists are often careful about what they say. "It can sound like we are waffling or covering things up," he noted. "Such statements don’t…
Type: News
Last chance to reserve your space at 5-course Penfolds dinner with iconic Australian wines, Nov. 13
Kick off the 175th anniversary year of legendary Australian winemaker Penfolds at a five-course dinner featuring some of winery's iconic wines on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at The Fourth Estate. Penfolds' global wine ambassador Zoe Warrington will travel from Australia to guide us through these extraordinary wines. Tickets are limited so click here to reserve now. Tickets are available on both the National Press Club website and Eventbrite. Tickets cost $95/single; $180/couple with a 15% discount for Club members ($80.75/$161.50). Members must be signed in to receive the discount. The evening begins…
Type: News
Panel to brief reporters on 25th Amendment, impeachment and law around Mueller investigation, Nov. 15
A group of top constitutional scholars, including a former White House counsel and a Watergate prosecutor, will brief reporters on the legal issues tied to special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe at a National Press Club Headliners panel at 10 a.m. Nov. 15 in the Bloomberg Room. Democratic takeover of either house of Congress will intensify the scrutiny around President Trump. Panelists will consider questions including: What would Democrats do with subpoena power if they win the House, the Senate or both?Will the Democrats attempt to impeach the president?Can a sitting president be…
Type: News
Host and founder of The Young Turks blasts mainstream media, touts role of digital media in progressive movement
Cenk Uygur, host and founder of progressive digital news outlet The Young Turks, delivered a blistering attack on the mainstream media Friday at the National Press Club. Uygur railed against what he described as a mainstream media beholden by corporate money to the status quo. “I don’t think it has a liberal bias, I don’t think it has a conservative bias, I think it has an establishment bias,” Uygur said of the mainstream media. Referring to CNN, he said, “Why are they in favor of the status quo? They don’t want to rock the boat. It’s their boat. If you’re a multibillion dollar corporation…
Type: News