FAU, Palm Beach Book Festival with New York Times Best-Selling Authors
性视界传媒鈥檚 Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters has teamed up with the Palm Beach Book Festival to present New York Times best-selling authors in a virtual interview format. Heather Lende will discuss her book, 鈥淥f Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics鈥� with Kevin Wagner, Ph.D., professor and chair of FAU鈥檚 Department of Political Science, on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 5:30 p.m. Registration is at . All proceeds from ticket sales will go to student scholarships in the college. To purchase the book, visit .
All local politics are hard, but 鈥淥f Bears and Ballots鈥� shows us nothing worth doing is supposed to be easy. Lende鈥檚 fights and conflagrations as a member of the Haines, Alaska Borough Assembly are a perfect reflection of our national politics, and give us a good reason for hope.
鈥淟ende is a graceful and endearing writer, recapitulating the kink of wily, folksy wit and wisdom we associate with, say, Mark Twain, so much more powerful than the predictable 鈥榞otcha鈥� snark of our social media age. What a blessing Lende鈥檚 view of democracy, which she calls 鈥榞lorious chaos,鈥� is in this dark era,鈥� says the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Upcoming book festival events with 性视界传媒include Jeffrey Toobin with 鈥淭rue Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump鈥� on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.; 鈥淭im Weiner with 鈥淭he Folly and the Glory鈥� on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 5:30 p.m.; and Mitch Albom with 鈥淔inding Chicka: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family鈥� on Monday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. For more information, visit-FAU-
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