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July 2011 Tuesday, July 5, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 14, 7 p.m. Saturday, July 23, 3 p.m. Tyler Cowen July5 11 14 John A. Farrell Sandra Beasley July 11 23July 11 The Great Stagnation Clarence Darrow Don’t Kill The Birthday Girl (Dutton, $12.95) (Doubleday, $32.50) (Crown, $23) For all the excitement of smartphones and social media, are the A journalist, biographer of Tip O’Neill and now senior This memoir from the award-winning poet chronicles new intellectual technologies as innovative and productive as writer for The Center for Public Integrity, Farrell draws on Beasley’s life-long allergies to—just about everything. A partial list those of the past? In this concise, thought-provoking look at unpublished documents to examine the darker side of the great of what she must avoid includes dairy, soy, beef, shrimp, cucumbers, recent economic history, the George Mason University profes- defense attorney. Famous for his role in the Scopes “Monkey and mustard. Thriving despite the constant threats, Beasley tells her sor and blogger argues that the pace of change has stalled. He Trial” and his advocacy on behalf of workers and blacks, Darrow story with wit and humor, examines the science of allergies, and compares today’s technological advances to those that fueled the also faced charges of bribing a jury; meanwhile, his personal life offers advice to fellow sufferers. Industrial Revolution, and finds that we have failed to keep pace in producing new was riddled with misjudgments concerning women and money. wealth, jobs, and overall productivity. Sunday, July 24, 5 p.m. Friday, July 15, 7 p.m. Tom Carson 24 David Willman July 11 Wednesday, July 6, 7 p.m. 15July 11 Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter Justin Martin The Mirage Man July6 11 (Paycock, $24.95) Genius Of Place (Bantam, $27) GQ’s “The Critic” and author of Gilligan’s Wake, Carson in his third (Da Capo, $30) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story novel lets one Pamela Buchanan Murphy Gerson Cadwaller talk In his third biography, the author of lives of Ralph Nader and of the 2001 anthrax killings as several intertwined stories. There about her life, loves, and exploits from the vantage point of her 86th Alan Greenspan turns to Frederick Law Olmsted. Journalist, was the search for the perpetrator, which resulted in a false accu- birthday. Just a few of the highlights: her experience as a war reporter social reformer, and, after 1863, a master “landscape architect,” sation before the true culprit was found. Then there were the on Omaha beach, stepping out with Marlene Dietrich, and comfort- Olmsted crafted nature to suit urban needs, creating Central media and government takes on the incidents, framing them as a ing LBJ when events went against him. Park, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, the Stanford University second wave of terror following 9/11 and as another justification grounds, and our own National Zoo. for war in Iraq. Monday, July 24, 7 p.m. 24July 11 Sally H. Jacobs Thursday, July 7, 7 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 6 p.m. The Other Barack Bob Riesman 16July 11 Christopher Sten July7 11 (PublicAffairs, $27.99) I Feel So Good Literary Capital The senior Barack Obama was a man of contradictions: a (Univ. of Chicago, $27.50) (Univ. of Georgia, $29.95) promising economist, he earned scholarships but never held the Riesman’s life of Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) Whether in the spotlight for its politics and power-brokers or government post he trained for. He fathered eight children, but encompasses the bluesman’s many pivotal roles. From melding serving as background for ordinary lives, Washington, D.C. wasn’t a family man. He was an outspoken nationalist but his the traditional, rural blues of his native Arkansas Delta region has inspired writers from its earliest days. In this anthology achievements were limited by alcoholism. Jacobs has interviewed with the urban sound in 1930s Chicago, to influencing the of Washington-based literature, Sten, an English professor at Obama’s relatives, friends, and colleagues for this thorough and resurgence of folk music after World War II and inspiring the George Washington University, has compiled poetry, letters, intimate look at the President’s father. blues-rock musicians of the 1960s, Broonzy was a key figure for memoirs, and fiction by writers from Henry Adams to Gore 20th-century popular music. Vidal, Frederick Douglass to Edward Jones, Walt Whitman to Sterling Brown, and Tuesday, July 26, 7 p.m. many, many more. Jeremy Ben-Ami 26July 11 Friday, July 8, 7 p.m. A New Voice For Israel Tom Gardner & Louann Lofton July8 11 Sunday, July 17, 5 p.m. (Palgrave Macmillan, $26) Warren Buffett Invests Like A Girl—And Why Glenn Carle 17July 11 The grandson of Zionists and himself the founder of J Street, You Should, Too The Interrogator Ben-Ami stands on the cusp of a changing perspective of Israel. (Harper Business, $25.95) (Nation, $26.99) A moderate, he argues that support for Israel is fully compatible Confidence and daring aren’t always a winning proposition For Carle, questions about the line between inter- with support for a Palestinian state. He also addresses the American when it comes to investments, say the authors, Motley Fool ana- rogation and torture are not abstract. A long-time CIA agent, Jewish community, advising its leaders to rethink old attitudes such lysts. These qualities, along with compulsion, characterize how he was deployed to a black site overseas to question suspected Al as alliances with neoconservatives. men make investments. Women, by contrast, have a more studi- Qaeda operatives. Despite voicing doubts about the operation, ous approach and their patience and research result in stronger he was sent with a high-level detainee into even deeper secrecy. Wednesday, July 27, 7 p.m. portfolios—more like Warren Buffett’s than like that of the average male investor. His memoir gives a chilling inside look at the darkest side of the J. Courtney Sullivan 27July 11 U.S. war on terror. Maine Saturday, July 9, 6 p.m. (Knopf, $25) Daniel Solove 9 Monday, July 18, 7 p.m. The second novel from the author of Commencement Nothing To Hide July 11 Christian Parenti 18July 11 spends a summer with the Kellehers. As the clan gathers at the (Yale Univ., $25) Tropic Of Chaos family’s summer home, tradition and change are both in the The ongoing war on terrorism seems to demand that (Nation, $25.99) air. Focusing on four women of the family, the story delves into we give up privacy to gain security. In his sharply reasoned Climate change is bringing with it new kinds of humanitarian secrets of the past, domestic frustrations of the present, and sur- new book, Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor crises and state failures, Parenti argues. A contributing editor at prises in store for the future. of Law at G.W. Law School, argues that this is a false premise. The Nation and author of books including Lockdown America, Exploring the history of privacy rights and the challenges of Parenti surveys struggling nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin Friday, July 29, 7 p.m. present technology, he shows how regulation and oversight can America and warns the West against practicing “climate fas- Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr preserve both security and privacy. cism” by using these regions as staging grounds for open-ended French Explorers, Sacred Cows, and 29July 11 counterinsurgency measures. Disappointing Babies: Making and distributing Sunday, July 10, 5 p.m. odd, commercially non-viable picture books for Marvin Kalb & Deborah Kalb Tuesday, July 19, 7 p.m. 10July 11 adults Haunting Legacy Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch 19 Author/illustrator pair Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr of (Brookings, $29.95) The Declaration Of Independents July 11 Idiots’Books will read from their catalog of satirical illustrated Vietnam is the ghost haunting every president since (PublicAffairs, $25.99) volumes and discuss collaboration, running a small press, and 1975 who faces a decision about going to war. In their deeply The authors, journalists and editors—Gillespie for their ongoing battle with genre. Their work has been praised by researched history of the post-Vietnam era, the authors, veteran Reason.tv and Welch for Reason magazine—present the New York Times, New York magazine, Slate.com, and BoingBoing. journalists, examine how each administration from Ford to their case for bringing America’s 18th-century political system up Obama has responded to this legacy. to date. Their manifesto for libertarian principles includes pro- Saturday, July 30, 6 p.m. files of libertarian thinkers and activists and a detailed critique of 30 Joby Warrick Monday, July 11, 7 p.m. 11 the two major political parties. July 11 The Triple Agent Sapphire July 11 (Doubleday, $26.95) The Kid Wednesday, July 20, 7 p.m. In a work of investigative reporting that reads like a (Penguin Press, $25.95) Peter Tomsen 20July 11 thriller, Warrick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, tells the Push introduced the savvy, street-smart, but brutalized The Wars Of Afghanistan story of Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent and illiterate Precious. In her new novel, the singer and poet tells (PublicAffairs, $39.99) the CIA had employed to infiltrate Al Qaeda. In December the story of Precious’s son, Abdul Jones. Opening with his moth- From 1989 to 1992 Tomsen served as ambassador and special 2009, Balawi detonated a bomb at a secret CIA base in Khost, er’s funeral, the narrative follows Abdul from age nine to young envoy to Afghanistan.