Were lining up some great author book signings for 2015. Heres whats coming up...all are free and open to the [ublic. Wednesday, Jan. 14th,,,7pm (Museum Theater) Julian Zelizer, author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. Julian Zelizer has written a majestic, big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media. -------------------------------------- Wednesday, Jan. 21st…7pm (Museum Theater) Elena Conis, author of Vaccine Nation: Americas Changing Relationship with Immunization Vaccine Nation opens in the 1960s, when government scientists—triumphant following successes combating polio and smallpox—considered how the country might deploy new vaccines against what they called the “milder” diseases, including measles, mumps, and rubella. In the years that followed, Conis reveals, vaccines fundamentally changed how medical professionals, policy administrators, and ordinary Americans came to perceive the diseases they were designed to prevent. --------------------------------------- Wednesday, Jan. 28th…7pm..(Museum Theater)…Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Bryan Stevenson is a distinguished NYU law professor and MacArthur grant recipient who was recently appointed by President Obama to a newly created task force on community policing. The New York Times selected Just Mercy as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2014. “[It] demonstrates, as powerfully as any book on criminal justice that I’ve ever read, the extent to which brutality, unfairness, and racial bias continue to infect criminal law in the United States.”—David Cole, The New York Review of Books --------------------------------------------- Tuesday, Feb, 3rd…7pm (Museum Theater)… Sheila McCauley Keys and Eddie B. Allen Jr., authors of Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons In Our Auntie Rosa the family of Rosa Parks presents a collection of personal remembrances, reflections, and never-before-seen photos and letters that pay tribute to Rosa Parks’s incredible strength and determination.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:33:28 +0000