Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
Author and labor expert Les Leopold will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, who was the late Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union leader. 6:30 p.m.
Nation magazine writer Jonathan Schell will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
On the very day Sen. Barack Obama could possibly claim New Hampshire's much-coveted delegates, Shelby Steele, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, will be at Politics and Prose to tell us why it's going to be a lot harder for him to take the whole enchilada. Steele's latest book A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't Win. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
It looks like there's a theme emerging this week at Politics and Prose. Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins will be at the bookstore to discuss The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets. We're close to soiling our skivvies, folks, so please stop reminding us that there are very bad weapons just floating around out there. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
With Homo Politicus, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank decided to approach politics in Washington from the anthropologist's perspective . He'll be at Politics and Prose to share his findings. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
Dominique Paul will be at the Olsson's in Old Town Alexandria to read from her debut novel, The Possibility of Fireflies, A Novel, a coming-of-age tale. 7 p.m.
Muhammad Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering microcredit banking in Bangladesh, will be at Wesley United Methodist Church to discuss his book Creating a World Without Poverty. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
Journalist/historian James Zug will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Guardian. No, not the 2006 stinker with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. The book is about South Africa's famous anti-apartheid newspaper. 6 p.m.