JEREMY SCAHILL
Wednesday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. One of the most important of many important stories to be written during the Bush Years has been the work of Polk Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill. First published last year, his debut book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, new in paper) is both an expose and a call to vigilance. "Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigate reporting." - Naomi Klein. "This engrossing investigative piece exposing, in shocking detail, a U.S. government-outsourced Frankenstein replete with helicopter gunships may leave you incredulous. But you better believe it, for it poses a grave and gathering danger to the future of our Republic." - Ray McGovern. $5 at the door (no advance tickets), with preferred seating for Town Hall members. Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). For more information, please see www.townhallseattle.org, or call (206) 652-4255, or Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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