Brenda and david, a little housekeeping. Their books are on sale today and they can be purchasedfrom barnes and noble outside the building at signing table 1. Theyll be signing them and after our brief queuing day, im supposed to remind everyone to leave the room after the event is over. Apeaceful transfer of power will be the idea of the event. Our topic today is e impeachment versus election how to confront a lawless president and our esteemed panelists are david paul, david is the author of engines of liberty how citizen movements succeed. It director of aclu and george Dave Mitchell director of law and policy at Georgetown University law center. An awardwinning author, regular contributorto the new york review of books and correspondent for the nation he lives in washington dc. Annette gordonreed , author of most beloved of the patriarchs is the Charles Warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history arts and sciences at harvard. She won th
I am the moderator here. I was one of the judges from Los Angeles Times science and Technology Book price and its wonderful to read so many and have a conversation with these folks here today. We are going to get started in a couple of reminders. Please silence your cell phones, also personal recording is not allowed. All of our lovely authors will be available for signing books through the door. Im going to introduce our panelists and then we will have a conversation and the new guys will have a chance to ask questions. Im going to start here with thomas hager, Award Winning author with a history of science and medicine including the demand under the microscope. It is a courtesy professor of journalism and communication at the university of oregon. Next to him is marsha, her book, time fullness, she is a professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University in appleton, wisconsin. She told me it is still snowing. Her journalism has been published in the news york times
My name is rebecca and im on the events team and tonight we are really excited to have [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is not his first thing he has given us to write. Casey has been writing for new yorkers and New York Times, for others for many years now. Many of you probably noticed because you are here but in all of her work she has been superhuman ability to make everybody else fascinating. Its a clear and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey marks to intertwining mysteries. One is a story of reverend Billy Maxwell in his trials and the other unfinished work of character. Stories with contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as must dash justice is possible. This is a book that you can actually not put down. I mean, that very seriously. I think im about 20 pages from the end right now. [laughter] casey, we are so excited to have you tonight thank you so much for coming. Patrick is a staff staffer with new yorker. [applause] auth
[applause] good evening, everyone. Im the Deputy Director of programs at politics and prose bookstore. Id like to thank you all for joining us this evening. Tonights event is a joint effort with our venue part owners of the marvin theater. I am honored tonight to introduce doctor Jared Diamond. I work with academics every day. We offer over 100 classes yearly with local distinguished professors on subjects such as current and classic literature, history, politics, writing workshops as we are a community of lifelong learners and speaking of learning, Jared Diamond is professor of geography at the university of california los angeles. His work includes five bestselling books and hes here today to talk about the most recent book entitled upheaval turning point for nations, from the firsthand experience the history of the six countries where he lived and was in five of six languages. I asked which language he didnt speak and he said japanese but he had japanese relatives. Upheaval complete
Good evening, everyone. Im the Deputy Director of programs at politics and prose bookstore. Id like to thank you all for joining us this evening. Tonights event is a joint effort with our venue part owners of the marvin theater. I am honored tonight to introduce doctor Jared Diamond. I work with academics every day. We offer over 100 classes yearly with local distinguished professors on subjects such as current and classic literature, history, politics, writing workshops as we are a community of lifelong learners and speaking of learning, Jared Diamond is professor of geography at the university of california los angeles. His work includes five bestselling books and hes here today to talk about the most recent book entitled upheaval turning point for nations, from the firsthand experience the history of the six countries where he lived and was in five of six languages. I asked which language he didnt speak and he said japanese but he had japanese relatives. Upheaval completes the trilo