Events
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Start: 6:00 pm
Cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall considers his new manifesto for a United States heading toward economic and political collapse his most radical yet—which is saying something. He has just returned from a trip to Afghanistan, stopping here now on tour with The Anti-American Manifesto (Seven Stories). Ted Rall sees opportunity in the current economic devastation—opportunity to first work against the kind of gangsterism that has rushed into place when Russia went through its collapse, then to push for the big radical shift that would be called revolution. "This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we know is necessary. This is the book we've all been waiting for. Pick up this book. Read it. And then get ready to fight back." - Derrick Jensen. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Ted Rall is also a syndicated political cartoonist, op-ed columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional war correspondent.
Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. National Book Award-winning biographer Ron Chernow has written about Alexander Hamilton, the "House" of Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller. He makes this Seattle appearance for what is perhaps his most masterful achievement yet with his new biography, Washington: A Life (Penguin Press). "With so much that can be said—and said positively—about this magisterial biography, it is difficult not to write a review as long as the book itself. Given the distinction of the author ... readers can safely assume from the outset that what lies ahead of them is a vastly enlightening, overwhelmingly engaging treatment of a great man ... Another book on Washington? is a question rendered pointless by this one, which happens to be the author's masterpiece. Definitive Washington is the point and effect of this biography." - Booklist. This should be a very special evening. Free admission is on a first-come, first serve basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
Start: 7:00 pm
Still remembered hereabouts from his days as a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, Oregon writer Larry Colton is here with No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life (Crown), a vivid recounting of four men who survived a Japanese attack on their submarine, only to be captured and imprisoned as POWs. Larry Colton does a remarkable job of telling the stories of these men, their ordeals, their times—from imprisonment and isolation during the war, to their difficult homecoming (people had given them up for dead), and life as they would live it over these ensuing decades. From different parts of the country—New York, Dallas, Medford, and Yakima—their separate origins were soon linked by fate—and destiny. Free admission. Trinity Lutheran Church is at 1200 Tenth Avenue E. (at Highland, about 15 blocks north of Elliott Bay on Capitol Hill). For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.
Start: 7:30 pm
The WALTER P. KISTLER LECTURE SERIES presented by FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE. All concerned are most relieved and glad to present this rescheduled lecture by noted University of Washington professor of biology and earth and space sciences Peter D. Ward, who is also the author of over a dozen highly regarded books. He was en route from his Lake Forest Park home to give this talk in June when an automobile accident caused postponement. His lecture, "Our Flooding World," is drawn from the same research that informs his newest book, The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps (Basic). "NASA astrobiologist Ward describes the disastrous changes that can be expected as sea levels continue their accelerating rise due to global warming. Drawing on recent studies, the author writes that there will be massive flooding—far more than currently predicted—of world coastlines, home to more than 200 million people ... to avoid disastrous global warming ... [Ward writes], humans must not only reduce greenhouse gases; they must change behaviors (stop using coal, eliminate the suburbs and private vehicles) and engineer new climate-protecting techniques ... A blunt, vivid warning." - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information on this evening and the Foundation For the Future, please see www.futurefoundation.org.
Start: 8:00 pm
Portion Two of what should be a lively, politically-informed evening at Elliott Bay has historian Thaddeus Russell, who has taught at Occidental College, Columbia, The New School, and Barnard, discussing his big new book, A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press). "Thaddeus Russell's A Renegade History of the United States is a work of history like no other—a bold, controversial, original view of American history that will amuse, inspire, outrage, and, most of all, instruct readers. Russell strips away conventional wisdom and explodes many myths. In the process, he sheds new light on ideas, institutions, and people." - Alan Brinkley. "Thaddeus Russell has written the history of the American People Whom Historians Would Rather Forget: the whores, delinquents, roustabouts—the so-called bums and immoral minority who did more for our civil rights and personal freedoms than anyone could count—until now. There is no understanding of American feminism, sexual liberation, civil rights or dancing in the streets without this careful analysis that Russell has put before us." - Susie Bright. Also with early praise: Steven Johnson, Nancy Cott, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Kirkus Reviews, and Elliott Gorn.
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