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SUMMARY:Peter Van Buren reads from his new book Hooper's War
DESCRIPTION:A historical novel with strong contemporary resonance\, Hooper’s War is set in WWII Japan. Protagonist Lieutenant Nate Hooper is a composite of too many men and women who have experienced the horror of war; he isn’t sure he’ll survive\, and if he does make it home\, he isn’t sure he can survive the peace. He’s done a terrible thing\, and struggles to resolve the mistake he made alongside a Japanese soldier\, and a Japanese woman who failed to save both men. At stake? Their souls. \nVan Buren writes about the experiences of those who have lived through wartimes with insight and empathy. He is a 24-year veteran of the State Department\, and in researching this book came to know a number of veterans through an anonymous group and\, under the same conditions\, spoke more intimately with men and women he lived alongside during a year he was in Iraq as an embed which is chronicled in his first book We Meant Well.  Fluent in Japanese\, Van Buren also interviewed elderly Japanese citizens who lived through WWII as civilians. He found that a lot of their pain festers not just out of what they saw and did\, but the realization that what they saw and did really didn’t matter in the bigger picture. It should’ve had a justification. Some explained they came to think of moral injury like taking apart a jigsaw puzzle. They thought and thought and while they couldn’t say exactly when\, at some point they couldn’t see the whole picture anymore.  
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-van-buren-reads-from-his-new-book-hoopers-war/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T180000
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SUMMARY:Ed Rucker reads from his debut The Inevitable Witness
DESCRIPTION:The Inevitable Witness is the first in a new series of legal thrillers that are smart\, funny\, and authentic by one of the most lionized defense attorneys in Los Angeles\, Ed Rucker. \nMeet defense attorney Bobby Earl\, who bears a remarkable resemblance to the author\, although Rucker claims that his main character is an amalgam of the characteristics of many defense lawyers he has known\, who is thrust into a politically-charged\, near indefensible murder case involving the most talented safe cracker in the business\, Sydney Seabrooke. More than coincidence led this esteemed criminal craftsman\, known in the trade as “The Professor\,” to a Chinese restaurant that contained an impenetrable 1950s Schwab safe with a Sargent and Greenleaf combination lock. Seconds away from the last tumbler falling into place\, Seabrooke is interrupted by gunshots. Officer Terrance Michael Horgan\, who inexplicably had a key to the Looh Fung Restaurant and had an interest in the same safe\, lay bleeding to death in the next room. \nEarl realizes that his client is a criminal but not a killer\, which takes him into a world of drug trafficking\, corrupt cops\, corrupt lawyers\, corrupt politicians\, and\, in almost every case\, judges with political ambitions. All the elements of the most high profile TV trials are present including a young\, attractive prosecutor\, an older greyed prosecutor with a closet full of the same grey suits\, an annoying gaggle of media types led by an obnoxious TV personality nicknamed “The Thumb\,” and a lowdown\, dirty jailhouse snitch. \n  \nEd Rucker has been a criminal defense lawyer his entire career. He has represented over 200 defendants\, including John Orr\, a Glendale Fire Department arson investigator who was reputed to be the greatest serial arsonist in American history\, a trial memorialized in Fire Lover\, by Joseph Wambaugh; Laurianne Sconce\, the matriarch of the family-owned Lamb Funeral Home\, who was charged with having secretly harvested body parts from the deceased over several years\, a trial that was the subject of the book Ashes\, by James Joseph; Eddie Nash\, a prominent nightclub owner\, who was charged in a death penalty case\, and who was portrayed in the film\, Boogie Nights; and William Harris\, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army\, who was involved in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ed-rucker-reads-from-his-debut-the-inevitable-witness/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T193000
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SUMMARY:Adam Kirsch discusses his new book The Global Novel
DESCRIPTION:What will 21st-century fiction look like? \nAcclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers\, including Haruki Murakami\, Elena Ferrante\, Roberto Bolaño\, and Margaret Atwood\, to better understand literature in the age of globalization. \nThe global novel\, he finds\, is not so much a genre as a way of imagining the world\, one that allows the novel to address both urgent contemporary concerns—climate change\, genetic engineering\, and immigration—along with timeless themes\, such as morality\, society\, and human relationships. Whether its stories take place on the scale of the species or the small town\, the global novel situates its characters against the widest background of the imagination. The way we live now demands nothing less than the global perspective our best novelists have to offer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adam-kirsch-discusses-his-new-book-the-global-novel/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170425T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the NYC launch of Great with Child with author Sonia Taitz
DESCRIPTION:Great With Child tells the story of ambitious\, driven Abigail Thomas. Up for partnership at a prestigious law firm\, she is thrown by an accidental pregnancy that threatens to upend her life. Witty\, warm\, and wise\, this novel confronts the true meanings of love\, morality\, and duty.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-nyc-launch-of-great-with-child-with-author-sonia-taitz/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170417T193000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro reads from her latest book Hourglass
DESCRIPTION:Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time–abraded\, strengthened\, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty\, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house\, her marriage\, and her heart\, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning–a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made\, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.  What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting\, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected\, in the face of disappointment and compromise–how do we wrest beauty from imperfection\, find grace in the ordinary\, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature\, poetry\, philosophy\, and theology\, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life\, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful\, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dani-shapiro-reads-from-her-latest-book-hourglass/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T193000
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SUMMARY:Beatrix Ost reads from her latest memoir More Than Everything
DESCRIPTION:Beatrix Ost’s memoir of her artistic awakening and early marriage opens on the heels of Germany’s recovery from the self-imposed disasters of World War II. She is part of the new generation that dances disobediently in the bombed-out villas and underground jazz caverns of Munich. Beatrix rides the dynamic decade up through the world of art\, fashion\, and cinema into the revolution of politics and consciousness. \nMarriage to the self-made prodigy and archaeologist\, Ferdinand\, impresario of the Hot Club\, draws her into the mystical realm of the ancient Mexican gods. Soon\, two sons are born. They make an odyssey through Mexico where\, under the wing of the artistic elite\, their homes full of Riveras and Kahlos\, the initial impression is intoxicating. But the further they press inland\, the more Ferdinand loses himself in his obsession and addictions. \nOst draws us into the vortex of human craving to portray the complexities of her early marriage to a man scarred by the war\, climbing the magical mountain of his own desires. \n  \nStyle icon Beatrix Ost arrived in New York in 1975 and was swiftly discovered by the New York Times as one of the city’s most elegant fusions of art and fashion. She is featured in two volumes of the book Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/beatrix-ost-reads-from-her-latest-memoir-more-than-everything/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170412T193000
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SUMMARY:Bethany Ball launches her debut novel What To Do About the Solomons
DESCRIPTION:Short\, elegant\, sexy\, and provocative\, Bethany Ball’s debut What to Do About the Solomons weaves contemporary Jewish history through a distinctly modern\, propulsive\, and savvy tale of family life. \nMeet Marc Solomon\, an Israeli ex-navy commando now living in L.A.\, who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons’ Santa Monica home is raided\, Marc’s American wife\, Carolyn—concealing her own dark past—makes hopeless attempts to hold their family of five together. But news of the scandal makes its way from America to the rest of the Solomon clan on the kibbutz in the Jordan River Valley. There we encounter various members of the family and the community—from Marc’s self-absorbed movie actress sister\, Shira\, and her forgotten son\, Joseph; to his rich and powerful construction magnate father\, Yakov; to his former star-crossed love\, Maya; and his brother-in-law\, Guy Gever\, a local ranger turned “artist.” As the secrets and rumors of the kibbutz are revealed through various memories and tales\, we witness the things that keep the Solomons together and those that tear them apart.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bethany-ball-launches-her-debut-novel-what-to-do-about-the-solomons/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T193000
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SUMMARY:Frances Fitzgerald discusses her latest book The Evangelicals
DESCRIPTION:This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize­–winning historian Frances Fitzgerald is the first to tell the powerful\, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America—from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election. \nThe evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches\, it became the dominant religious force in the country.  During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart dramatically\, first North versus South\, and then at the end of the century\, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II\, Billy Graham\, the revivalist preacher\, attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent\, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists\, such as Pat Robertson\, had formed the Christian right. Protesting abortion and gay rights\, they led the South into the Republican Party\, and for thirty-five years they were the sole voice of evangelicals to be heard nationally. Eventually a younger generation of leaders protested the Christian right’s close ties with the Republican Party and proposed a broader agenda of issues\, such as climate change\, gender equality\, and immigration reform. \nEvangelicals have in many ways defined the nation. They have shaped our culture and our politics. Frances Fitzgerald’s narrative of this distinctively American movement is a major work of history\, piecing together the centuries-long story for the first time. Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent of the American population\, but they are no longer monolithic in their politics. They range from Tea Party supporters to social reformers. Still\, with the decline of religious faith generally\, Fitzgerald suggests that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they are to survive.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/frances-fitzgerald-discusses-her-latest-book-the-evangelicals/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T193000
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SUMMARY:Eden Collinsworth reads from her latest book Behaving Badly
DESCRIPTION:What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous\, the infamous\, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.\n\nTo call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business\, cheating\, lying\, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life\, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow\, this hasn’t quite led to a complete free-for-all—people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why. In her intrepid quest\, she squares off  with a prime minister\, the editor of London’s Financial Times\, a holocaust survivor\, a pop star\, and a former commander of the U.S. Air Force to grapple with the impracticality of applying morals to foreign policy; precisely when morality gets lost in the making of money; what happens to morality without free will; whether “immoral” women are just those having a better time; why celebrities have become the new moral standard-bearers; and if testosterone is morality’s enemy or its hero. \n\nSEE LESS
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eden-collinsworth-reads-from-her-latest-book-behaving-badly/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170321T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of The Secrets You Keep with Kate White
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control. \nWhat would you do if you realized that your new husband\, a man you adore\, is keeping secrets from you—secrets with terrifying consequences? \nBryn Harper\, an accomplished self-help author\, already has plenty to deal with. She’s still recovering from a devastating car accident that has left her haunted by recurring\, smoke-filled nightmares. Worse still\, she can’t shake the ominous feeling her dreams contain a warning. In the beginning\, Bryn’s husband Guy couldn’t have been more supportive. But after moving into a new house together\, disturbing incidents occur and Guy grows evasive\, secretive. What the hell is going on\, she wonders? Then\, a woman hired to cater their dinner party is brutally murdered. As Bryn’s world unravels—and yet another woman in town is slain —she must summon her old strength to find answers and protect her own life. Her nightmares may in fact hold the key to unlocking the truth and unmasking the murderer. With unexpected\, riveting twists\, The Secrets You Keep is an utterly compelling psychological thriller that once again showcases Kate White’s extraordinary storytelling talent.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-secrets-you-keep-with-kate-white/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170315T193000
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SUMMARY:John Freely on Tuesday\, March 14th: CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER MOVED TO WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 15th
DESCRIPTION:An engaging\, funny\, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory\, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit \nJohn Freely’s voice is still astonishingly youthful\, full of wonder\, humor\, and gratitude\, as he remembers his fully lived life. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants\, he went to Ireland with his mother when he was five\, where he spent his young childhood on his grandfather’s farm. Western Ireland was impoverished by the times\, but rich in beauty and intriguing people\, and it opened in him a lifelong desire to see the world and its inhabitants. When he was seven\, he returned to Brooklyn\, and the antics of a coming-of-age boy played out on streets filled with character and characters. He took whatever jobs he could when times got tough\, always shaking off his losses and moving on\, hungry to see and experience what was next. He joined the U.S. Navy at seventeen to “see the world\,” and did just that. In wartime\, while bringing supplies and ammunition over the Stilwell-Burma Road to Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese guerrilla forces\, Freely served alongside them during the last weeks of World War II in the Tibetan borderlands of China\, a Shangri-la that war had turned into hell on earth.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-as-john-freely-reads-from-his-new-book-the-house-of-memory/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Orbit\, a new collection of poems by Cynthia Zarin
DESCRIPTION:With Orbit\, prize-winning author Cynthia Zarin confirms her place as an indispensable American poet of our time. \nIn this\, her fifth collection\, Zarin turns her lyric lens on the worlds within worlds we inhabit and how we navigate our shared predicament—the tables of our lives on which the news of the day is strewn: the president speaking to parishioners in Charleston\, the ricochet of violence\, near and far. Whether writing about hairpin turns in the stair of childhood\, the cat’s claw of anxiety\, on the impending loss of a young friend\, or how “love endures\, give or take\,” here is the poet who\, in the title poem\, “bartered forty summers for black pearls” and whose work is full of such wagers\, embodied in playing cards\, treble notes\, snow globes\, and balancing acts. Zarin reminds us that the atmosphere created by our experiences shapes and defines the orbit we move through. Along the way\, she is both witness and\, often indirectly\, subject—“I do not know how to hold the beauty and sorrow of my life\,” she writes. This book is an attempt at an answer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-orbit-a-new-collection-of-poems-by-cynthia-zarin/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170307T193000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Barbarisi reads from his first book Dueling with Kings
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Barbarisi quits his job as the New York Yankees beat writer for The Wall Street Journal and begins a quest: to join the top one percent of Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) players\, the so-called “sharks\,” and figure out whether DFS is on the level—while maybe cashing in along the way. \nDFS is fantasy sports on steroids. It’s the domain of bitter rivals FanDuel and DraftKings\, online juggernauts who turned a legal loophole into a billion-dollar industry by allowing sports fans bet piles of cash constructing fantasy teams. \nYet as Barbarisi quickly realized\, what should have been a fun companion to casual sports viewing was instead a ferocious environment infested with sharks\, a top tier of pros wielding complex algorithms\, drafting hundreds of lineups\, and wagering six figures daily as they bludgeon unsuspecting amateur “fish.” Barbarisi embeds himself inside the world of DFS\, befriending and joining its rogue’s gallery as he tries to beat them at their own game. \nIn a work equal parts adventure and rigorously reported investigation\, Barbarisi wades into this chaotic industry at the very moment its existence is threatened by lawmakers sick of its Wild West atmosphere and pushy advertising. All their money made FanDuel and DraftKings seem invincible; but\, as Barbarisi reports\, they made plenty of dubious—perhaps even scandalous—moves as they vied for market supremacy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-barbarisi-reads-from-his-first-book-dueling-with-kings/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of The Trade Off \, the debut novel by Nader Hossain Salehi
DESCRIPTION:Reza Shirvani is a talented\, young associate on the cusp of promotion to partnership at a top corporate law firm in Washington\, D.C. \nBut the biggest challenge in his life is far more complicated—his mother and sister have fled Iran and are now stuck in western Afghanistan. Their last and best hope for safe passage to America lies in the hands of a tribal warlord\, but only if Reza can quickly come up with a small fortune to pay him. \nWhen Clara\, Reza’s beautiful\, former lover unexpectedly reappears in his life\, Reza seems to have stumbled on a solution to all of his problems. \nVery soon\, though\, it becomes clear that Clara’s reappearance is not completely coincidental\, and Reza finds himself confronting an insider trading mastermind\, a Saudi financier of terror\, cyber espionage\, and\, along the way\, his own greatest doubts and fears. \nFast-paced and gripping\, readers are taken from high-powered offices in D.C.\, London\, and New York\, to streets and compounds in Kabul and beyond. \nA timeless and yet modern journey of self-discovery\, Trade Off illuminates just how ambiguous morality can be when innocent lives are at stake. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-the-trade-off-the-debut-novel-by-nader-hossain-salehi/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T193000
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new collection of poetry The Analyst
DESCRIPTION:When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke\, her longtime patient\, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock\, took up a unique task. The Analyst is a new\, visceral\, twenty-first century “in memoriam” of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images\, from a red enameled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a painting\, create the backdrop for her quest to define identity. \nFrom “In Our Unexpected Future”: \n…for frocks outlast pillars. But feelings\noutlive frocks. The immaterial storms through\,\na force beyond years (a mere four since you\nwere nearly felled). It isn’t what happened that lasts.\nNot art\, either\, but the savory core. What’s felt.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-the-analyst/
LOCATION:The Corner Bookstore\, 1313 Madison Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170215T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Organized Enough with Amanda Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:This is not a book that tells you to throw everything out and live austerely. You don’t need a sock drawer that brings you joy or a kitchen from a design magazine; what you do need is to be organized enough to feel in control and serene. Organized Enough offers a ground-breaking\, science-driven method for maintaining organization: it addresses not just the steps of decluttering but also of developing the habits to stay clutter-free. Amanda Sullivan shares the method that has brought great success to her clients-from celebrities to hoarders. With seven concepts to help you define your goals and seven essential habits to keep chaos and clutter at bay\, you will learn to reframe how you think about your space\, your stuff\, and your life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-organized-enough-with-amanda-sullivan/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161221T141559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T141559Z
UID:1035-1486490400-1486495800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Patricia Bosworth reads from The Men in My Life
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this profound and powerful memoir\, a story of family\, marriage\, tragedy\, Broadway\, and art\, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period. \nBorn into privilege in San Francisco as the children of famous attorney Bartley Crum and novelist Gertrude\, Patricia and her brother Bart Jr. lead charmed lives until their father’s career is ruined when he defends the Hollywood Ten. The family moves to New York\, suffering greater tragedy when Bart Jr. kills himself. However\, his loving spirit continues to influence Patricia as she fights to succeed as an actress and writer. Married and divorced from an abusive husband before she’s twenty\, she joins the famed Actors Studio. She takes classes with Lee Strasberg alongside Marilyn Monroe\, Paul Newman\, and others; she works on Broadway opposite Paul Muni\, Helen Hayes\, and Elaine Stritch; Gore Vidal and Elia Kazan become her mentors. Her anecdotes of theatre’s Golden Age have never been told before. At the zenith of her career\, about to film The Nun’s Story with Audrey Hepburn\, Patricia faces a decision that changes her forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/patricia-bosworth-reads-from-the-men-in-my-life/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170131T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170131T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161205T215730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161205T215730Z
UID:1030-1485885600-1485891000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Phillip Lopate reads from A Mother's Tale
DESCRIPTION:In 1984\, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother\, Frances\, to listen to her life story. A strong\, resilient\, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century\, she was orphaned in childhood\, ran away and married young\, and then reinvented herself as a mother\, war factory worker\, candy store owner\, community organizer\, clerk\, actress\, and singer. But paired with exciting anecdotes are the criticisms of the husband who couldn’t satisfy her\, the details of numerous affairs and sexual encounters\, and\, though she succeeded at many of her roles\, accounts of how she always felt mistreated\, taken advantage of. After the interviews\, at a loss for what to do with the tapes\, Lopate put them away. But thirty years later\, after his mother had passed away\, Lopate found himself drawn back to the recordings of this conversation. Thus begins a three-way conversation between a mother\, his younger self\, and the person he is today. \nTrying to break open the family myths\, rationalizations\, and self-deceptions\, A Mother’s Tale is about family members who love each other but who can’t seem to overcome their mutual mistrust. Though Phillip is sympathizing to a point\, he cannot join her in her operatic displays of self-pity and how she blames his father for everything that went wrong. His detached\, ironic character has been formed partly in response to her melodramatic one. The climax is an argument in which he tries to persuade her—using logic\, of all things—that he really does love her\, but is only partially successful\, of course. \nA Mother’s Tale is about something primal and universal: the relationship between a mother and her child\, the parent disappointed with the payback\, the child\, now fully grown\, judgmental. The humor is in the details.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/phillip-lopate-reads-from-a-mothers-tale/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161205T215253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161205T215253Z
UID:1027-1484848800-1484854200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Adelia Saunders reads from her debut novel Indelible
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin–names\, dates\, details both banal and profound–and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully\, her own skin is blank. \nWhen she meets Neil\, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He’s in Paris for the summer\, studying a medieval pilgrimage to the coast of Spain\, where the body of Saint Jacques is said to have washed ashore\, covered in scallop shells. Magdalena\, desperate to make things right after her best friend dies–a tragedy she might have prevented–embarks on her own pilgrimage\, but not before Neil falls for her\, captivated by her pale eyes\, charming Eastern European accent\, and aura of heartbreak. \nNeil’s father\, Richard\, is also in Paris\, searching for the truth about his late mother\, a famous expatriate American novelist who abandoned him at birth. All his life Richard has clung to a single memory of his mother–her red shoes–which her biographers agree he never could have seen. \nIn Adelia Saunders’ arresting debut\, secrets are revealed among forgotten texts in the old archives of Paris\, on a dusty cattle ranch in the American West\, along ancient pilgrim paths\, and in a run-down apartment in post-Soviet Lithuania. By chance\, or perhaps by fate\, the novel’s unforgettable characters converge\, and Magdalena’s uncanny ability may be the key to their happiness.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adelia-saunders-reads-from-her-debut-novel-indelible/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161110T164723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T164723Z
UID:947-1484676000-1484681400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Sheila Kohler reads from her memoir Once We Were Sisters
DESCRIPTION:“A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates \nWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven\, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine\, only two years older\, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg.  Stunned by the news\, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born\, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. \nIn her signature spare and incisive prose\, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate\, Crossways\, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls\, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother\, at turns distant and suffocating.  We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices.  Kohler  evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks\, even after death.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sheila-kohler-reads-from-her-memoir-once-we-were-sisters/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170111T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161110T164514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T164514Z
UID:944-1484157600-1484163000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Molly Haskell reads from her latest Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
DESCRIPTION:A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented \n“Everything about me is in my films\,” Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker\, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg’s works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind\, E.T.\, Jurassic Park\, and Indiana Jones\, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the Sun\, to the haunting Schindler’s List\, Haskell shows how Spielberg’s uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life\, work\, and times are entwined. \nOrganizing chapters around specific films\, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg’s childhood in non-Jewish suburbs\, his parents’ traumatic divorce\, his return to Judaism upon his son’s birth\, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director—a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness\, generosity of spirit\, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-haskell-reads-from-her-latest-steven-spielberg-a-life-in-films/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170110T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161110T164309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T164309Z
UID:941-1484071200-1484076600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amy Poeppel reads from her debut novel Small Admissions
DESCRIPTION:Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum Laude smarts\, Kate Pearson has turned into a major slacker. After being unceremoniously dumped by her handsome\, French “almost fiancé\,” she abandons her grad school plans and instead spends her days lolling on the couch\, watching reruns of Sex and the City\, and leaving her apartment only when a dog-walking gig demands it. Her friends don’t know what to do other than pass tissues and hope for a comeback\, while her practical sister\, Angela\, pushes every remedy she can think of\, from trapeze class to therapy to job interviews. \nMiraculously\, and for reasons no one (least of all Kate) understands\, she manages to land a job in the admissions department at the prestigious Hudson Day School. In her new position\, Kate learns there’s no time for self-pity or nonsense during the height of the admissions season\, or what her colleagues refer to as “the dark time.” As the process revs up\, Kate meets smart kids who are unlikable\, likeable kids who aren’t very smart\, and Park Avenue parents who refuse to take no for an answer. \nMeanwhile\, Kate’s sister and her closest friends find themselves keeping secrets\, hiding boyfriends\, dropping bombshells\, and fighting each other on how to keep Kate on her feet. On top of it all\, her cranky\, oddly charming\, and irritatingly handsome downstairs neighbor is more than he seems. Through every dishy\, page-turning twist\, it seems that one person’s happiness leads to another’s misfortune\, and suddenly everyone\, including Kate\, is looking for a way to turn rejection on its head\, using any means necessary—including the truly unexpected.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amy-poeppel-reads-from-her-debut-novel-small-admissions/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20161026T192345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192345Z
UID:934-1479232800-1479238200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Diane B. Saxton reads from Peregrine Island
DESCRIPTION:The Peregrine family’s lives are turned upside down one summer when so-called “art experts” appear on the doorstep of their Connecticut island home to appraise a favorite heirloom painting. When incriminating papers\, as well as other paintings\, are discovered behind the artwork in question\, the appraisal turns into a full-fledged investigation. Antagonism mounts between grandmother\, mother\, and child\, who begin to suspect one another\, as well as the shady newcomers in their midst\, of foul play. \nAs the summer progresses and the Peregrines discover facts about their past in the course of the investigation\, they learn that people—including them—are not always who they appear to be. But when they uncover the painting’s deepest secret\, it gives them the gift of love that they have unconsciously been seeking all along.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/diane-b-saxton-reads-from-peregrine-island/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160831T195223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161109T144440Z
UID:918-1478716200-1478719800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Bill Sanderson reads from his debut Bulletins From Dallas
DESCRIPTION:An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century’s star reporters and his biggest story. \nThanks to one reporter’s skill\, we can fix the exact moment on November 22\, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time\, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when Cronkite broke the news on TV\, he read from one of Smith’s dispatches. At Parkland Hospital\, Smith saw President Kennedy’s blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency room attendants arrived. Two hours later\, he was one of three journalists to witness President Johnson’s swearing-in aboard Air Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story he wrote for the next day’s morning newspapers. \nSmith’s scoop is journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White House reporter of his time\, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject of a biography. \nWith access to a trove of Smith’s personal letters and papers and through interviews with Smith’s family and colleagues\, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open the legend. Bulletins from Dallas will tell for the first time how Smith beat his competition on the story\, and will show how the biggest scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bill-sanderson-reads-from-his-debut-bulletins-from-dallas/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160831T194037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T194842Z
UID:913-1478023200-1478028600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Laurence Bergreen reads from his new book Casanova
DESCRIPTION:The definitive biography of the impoverished child\, abandoned by his parents\, who became the famous writer\, notorious libertine\, and self-invented genius whose name still resonates today: Giacomo Casanova. \nToday\, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover\,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. Giacomo Casanova was raised by his maternal grandmother\, an illiterate peasant. His birthplace\, Venice\, was a republic in decline\, reputedly the most debauched city in Europe. Casanova would add to the republic’s reputation. Over the course of his lifetime\, he claimed to have seduced more than 100 women\, among them married women\, young women in convents\, girls just barely in their teens\, and in one notorious instance\, his own illegitimate daughter. \nCasanova came of age in a Venice filled with spies and informers. Naturally brilliant\, he was intellectually curious and read forbidden books\, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison\, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France\, where he invented the national lottery that still exists to this day. But\, intemperate by nature\, he made enemies at the French court. He crisscrossed Europe\, landing for a while in St. Petersburg\, where he was admitted to the court of Catherine the Great. He corresponded with Voltaire and met Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte—assisting them as they composed the timeless opera Don Giovanni. And he wrote what many consider the greatest memoir of the era\, the 12-volume Story of My Life. \nA figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel: erotic\, brilliant\, impulsive\, and desperate for recognition\, Casanova was a self-destructive genius. This witty\, roisterous biography exposes his astonishing life in rich\, intimate detail. At the same time\, it is a dazzling portrait of eighteenth-century Europe from serving girls to kings and courtiers. Esteemed biographer Laurence Bergreen brings a sensual world vividly alive in this irresistible book.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/laurence-bergreen-reads-from-his-new-book-casanova/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160908T145407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T145407Z
UID:921-1477504800-1477510200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Erica Abeel reads from her latest Wild Girls
DESCRIPTION:Three college friends from the 50s blaze their own path in love and work\, braving the stifling conventions of the age\, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These “wild girls” pay heavy penalties for living against the grain\, but\, over the years\, rebound and re-set their course\, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite northeastern college\, to Paris with Allen Ginsberg\, to New York’s avant-garde scene in the early sixties\, to a mansion in Newport\, to the slopes of Zermatt\, to Long Island’s Gold Coast\, as it celebrates the nimbleness and vitality of women who defied an entire culture to forge their own journey.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/erica-abeel-reads-from-her-latest-wild-girls/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160816T195342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160921T181421Z
UID:909-1476381600-1476387000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Mary Stewart Hammond reads from her new collection of poetry Entering History
DESCRIPTION:Lyrical narratives that chronicle a long marriage\, rich with wit\, dark irony\, and poignancy. \nIn her long-awaited second volume\, Mary Stewart Hammond chronicles a long marriage with sharp wit\, dark irony\, and poignancy. As James Merrill says of Hammond’s poems\, they “brim with what the whole world knows.” \nEntering History opens on a middle-aged couple\, modern-day travelers in an ancient setting. The collection follows their relationship through time and place\, combining the personal and the historical in stories of the family—siblings\, a daughter\, and the very different marriage of the poet’s parents. \nThe marriage poems share the intimacy\, erotic playfulness\, irritations\, worries\, and angers that are part of an enduring love and a long marriage. In “Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James\,” the poet paints her husband using syntax and language that evoke James’s. In “Venasque\,” the wintry village\, perched on the edge of a cliff\, serves as a metaphor for the existential crisis facing the couple. \n“Lines composed at Beaufort\, South Carolina\, a few miles above Parris Island\,” about the poet’s brother\, moves back and forth between the Civil War and the preparations of troops for today’s wars. In “Jacob and Esau with Sister\,” two brothers\, in a transaction as old as oral history\, highlight its consequences in the twenty-first century. “Anniversary” is a heartbreaking elegy for a third brother who kills himself. \nHammond reaches into the past and present of the American family\, closing Entering History where it began\, with the couple in bed\, now older\, harkening back to the bed they shared when they were newlyweds. These powerful\, beautifully crafted\, lyrical narratives give depth to an examination of life—its joys\, sorrows\, laughter\, and tragedies.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/mary-stewart-hammond-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poetry-entering-history/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160630T155308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160816T194129Z
UID:898-1475604000-1475609400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Paris Nights with Cliff Simon and Loren Stephens
DESCRIPTION:Taking a look back\, we see twelve-year-old Cliff helming a racing dinghy in the midst of a thunderstorm on the Vaal River. His father yells at him not to be a sissy\, and he brings the boat back to shore alone.\nWe then travel to London with his family escaping the tumult of Apartheid.\nHe trains for the Olympics\, but drops out\, enrolling in the South African military where he subjected to harsh treatment and name calling – Fokken\nJood. After a honorable discharge\, he works in cabaret at seaside resorts and is recruited as a gymnast in a cabaret\, where he realizes that the stage is his destiny. The memoir fast forwards to Cliff’s meteoric rise at the Moulin from swing dancer to principal in “Formidable.” Off stage he gets into fights with street thugs\, hangs out with diamond smugglers\, and has his pick of gorgeous women. With a year at the Moulin to his credit\, doors open for him internationally and back in South Africa. He earns a starring role in\n“Egoli: Place of Gold\,” and marries his long-time girlfriend\, Colette. On their honeymoon to Paris\, Cliff says\, “Merci Paris for the best year of my life.”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-paris-nights-with-cliff-simon-and-loren-stephens/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160915T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160630T154641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160802T193131Z
UID:897-1473962400-1473967800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Julian Tepper reads from his latest book\, Ark
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Arkin is an attorney in Manhattan. She’s grounded\, driven\, and successful. Unfortunately\, she’s also the granddaughter of Ben Arkin\, an artist who has never sold a piece\, and the daughter of Oliver Arkin\, who—along with his sisters—runs a record company that has never had a hit. When a legal battle breaks out for control of the company\, it falls to Rebecca to keep her family from collapsing\, all while trying desperately to extricate herself from their grasp.\nTold in the vein of a Wes Anderson film\, Ark follows three generations of a seemingly wealthy but crumbling New York family on their way from the penthouse to the outhouse. Filled with an absurdly captivating cast of characters who are often despicable yet entirely compelling\, Tepper’s sophomore novel is a wry and darkly humorous take on family dynamics.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/julian-tepper-reads-from-his-latest-book/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160912T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T132928
CREATED:20160802T193809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T172010Z
UID:906-1473703200-1473708600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Larry Kudlow & Brian Domitrovic discuss their new book JFK and the Reagan Revolution
DESCRIPTION:John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board. He was essentially the first supply-sider. Sadly\, today’s Democrats have ignored JFK’s tax-cut legacy and have opted instead for an anti-growth\, tax-hiking redistribution program\, undermining America’s economy. According to liberal conventional wisdom\, “the great postwar prosperity”—the most cherished period of American economic history—came because we were smart enough to tax the rich at very high rates\, expand government spending\, and redistribute wealth. Yet in fact\, the opposite is true. As JFK realized\, high taxes that punished success and fanned class warfare harmed the economy. In the 1950s\, when high tax rates prevailed\, America endured recessions every two or three years and the ranks of the unemployed swelled. Only in the 1960s did an interrupted boom at a high rate of growth (averaging 5 percent per year) drive a tremendous increase in jobs for the long term. The difference was Kennedy’s economic policy\, particularly his push for sweeping tax-rate cuts. Kennedy was so successful in the ’60s that he directly inspired Ronald Reagan’s tax cut revolution in the 1980s\, which rejuvenated the economy and gave us another boom that lasted for two decades. Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic reveal the secret history of American prosperity by exploring the little-known battles within the Kennedy administration. They show why JFK rejected the advice of his Keynesian advisors\, turning instead to the ideas proposed by the non-Keynesians on his team of rivals.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/larry-kudlow-discusses-his-new-book-jfk-and-the-reagan-revolution/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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