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Start: 7:00 pm
Author of numerous books on marine life and exploration—Titanic's Last Secrets, Descent, Planet Ocean, and Ray Troll's Shocking Fish Tales among them—Brad Matsen makes this welcome Elliott Bay return from his Vashon Island home to talk about his newest, Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (Pantheon). This biography of the late French underwater explorer and television host is receiving attention far, wide .... and deep. "Like the subject of this book, Brad Matsen has found his true milieu: the deep ocean. Now he brings his very special brilliance to illuminate the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau. He has done a masterful job in this much-needed, revealing biography of the ocean's most illustrious adventurer, filmmaker, conservationist, and advocate." - Richard Ellis.
Start: 7:30 pm
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Once a managing partner at Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins writes of a world she knows and knows well—in her work with Demos, her writing for Mother Jones, Fortune, AlterNet, The Nation, and other publications, and now in her revealing book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley). "If you want to understand why the Geithner—Summers plan won't solve the financial crisis, and why Wall Street is disgraced but still calling the shots, you can't do better than the brilliantly written and documented It Takes a Pillage, by former investment banker and financial critic Nomi Prins." - Robert Kuttner. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m. or via www.brownpaperticket.com (or 1-800-838-3006). Preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Town Hall at (206) 652-4255, or see www.townhallseattle.org.
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