SAMANTHA POWER
Friday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue

Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. The Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Samantha Power received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award for her 2003 book, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. In addition to her writing, and teaching, she was also the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School. She knows well whereof she writes in her extraordinary new book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press). This is both a chronicle of the life of the man whose last work was with the United Nations—serving as UN representative in Iraq after the US's invasion, where he was killed by a terrorist bomb—and the world he tried to help save. "This majestic, profoundly important book deserves to reach the widest possible audience. As a biography of an endlessly fascinating man, it is beautifully written, enthralling from start to finish. As a study of leadership, it ranks with the very best. And as an analysis of how to respond to the struggles of the new era in which we find ourselves, it is the defining work for our generation." - Doris Kearns Goodwin. $5 admission 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.

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