For Immediate Release Date: Oct 15, 2015 Contact: Tony Clark, 404-865-7109 [email protected] News15-11
Author Line-Up…Something For Everyone
Atlanta, GA … We’ve got something for everyone at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library author program. Here’s what we have coming up.
Monday, Oct. 26……….Dan Jones, author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Tuesday, Oct. 27………Leonard Pitts, author of Grant Park
Wednesday, Oct. 28…..Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Tuesday, Nov. 3….Diana Nyad…author of Find A Way: One Wild and Precious Life
Unless noted, the book signings are free and will begin at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater. Acappella Books will have copies of the author’s book available for purchase and signing.
Want to know more? Here’s what critics are saying about these authors:
Dan Jones (Magna Carta) "By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us today."—Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Storm of War and Napoleon
Leonard Pitts (Grant Park) Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories.
Ari Berman (Give Us The Ballot) In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the Voting Rights Act and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day.
Diana Nyad (Find A Way) "Find A Way" is Diana Nyad’s amazing, inspiring firsthand account of her record-breaking swim, after four failed attempts, from Cuba to Florida, at the age of sixty-four–and of her extraordinary quest to live life at the highest level, in and out of the water. Tickets available at ACappella Books.
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