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Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign p ....
Fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is now worth 72,000, so not chump change. To date, some 20 biographies have been published including shirley jackson, one of the Prestigious National book critic award for biography. I also read the news about our brandnew wholly unique Masters Program in biography and memoir. It is just hard this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. And brenda is actually both a former director of the leon leavy center and she now teaches one of the core courses in the new Masters Program. Just a reminder what our next program is next wednesday september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david nassau giving the annual lecture on biography. Tonight, im very delighted to have with us ben moser in conversation with brenda wineapple. As i said, branded as a ....
Welcoming billin dinges. [applause] doctor dinges ok, thank you. Good evening, everyone. , anddelighted to be here im delighted you are here on muggy, welcome, to washington, d. C. In august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Up anoriginally conjured image of rough water everson. Ralph waldo emerson. I doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband. I looked at it a while and came to the conclusion this would probably verge on sacrilege. Thisad, i am starting with particular image in the title. Woodstock, pond to the transcendental and roots transcendentalist roots of the 1960s counterculture. I am going to share with you some thoughts this evening and some ideas about a mid19th century american religious, philosophical, and Literary Movement known as transcendentalism. And, its connections with socially,ture that culturally, politically generation gap. The age of aquarius, make love, not war, times they ar ....
Section in depth. Youll see special guests like Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, the Washington Post columnist in the thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have the Pulitzer Prize author Colson Whitehead as the guest comments most recent book he underground railroad. What is the appropriate response when your books are praised by oprah, president obama, you win the Pulitzer CommitteeNational Book award, so what is the appropriate response . [laughter] guest this book has taken off in a way that was unexpected so most of the i just thank my lucky stars and sleep a little betterne and try to enj ....
Photos of the days events and share with friends and family on how wonderful this can be remembered to silence your phones. If you havent bought the book, todays featured book, feel free to do so. You can do so now or right afterwards because both of the authors will be happy to sign your book. And with that, we can get started. In 1971, Timothy Leary was dubbed the high priest of lsd who had run for governor against ronald reagan. This put him in prison and set off a dynamic change in events involving groups such as the Weather Underground in the black panthers and president nixon. That was all too wild to believe, but true they were and itsall chronicled in todays featured book , the most dangerous man of america. Authors bill minutaglio and Stephen Davis combined research of previously known events with just recent ....