Telling the Truth 2023: The Struggle for America's Future

How do you feel about America these days? Join us for a pair of discussions with major thinkers and journalists representing a variety of viewpoints about the present and future of our nation. Each session will feature questions from the audience. Books will be available for sale and a signing will follow the second conversation. The American Presidency: A conversation about the Biden administration and the prospect of a second Trump administration, with: Franklin Foer, the author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future (2023), the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency. Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and former editor of The New Republic. Miles Taylor, White House whistleblower and security expert, served as chief of staff at the US Department of Homeland Security under President Trump. He is best-known for his “Anonymous” essay, titled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” published in the New York Times in Sept. 2018. His #1 national bestseller, A Warning by Anonymous, was published in 2019. His new book is Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump (July 2023). The American Backlash: A conversation about the politics of revenge, and the impulse to punish “out groups” who have made political gains -- particularly racial, sexual, and cultural minorities, and women, with: Juliet Hooker, noted political scientist, is the author of the acclaimed new book, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Oct. 2023). Jelani Cobb called it, "every bit as stark and urgent as the moment of racial reckoning that inspired it." Her 2017 book, Theorizing Race in the Americas, won the "Ralph Bunche Book Award" and "Best Book on Race, Ethnicity and Politics" of the American Political Science Association. Jeff Sharlet, author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023). The New York Times praised it as a "riveting, vividly detailed collage of political and moral derangement in America, one that horrifyingly corresponds to liberals’ worst fears." He also wrote The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. 5:30 p.m. Friday, November 17, 2023 Page Hall, Downtown UAlbany campus 135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203 Free and open to the public. No registration required. More information at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/tellingthetruth2023 Major support and funding provided by The Professor Ben-Ami Lipetz NYS Writers Institute Fund.

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