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Start: 6:30 pm
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility David Walker Former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office David M. Walker joins the Center to discuss his important new book, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility. For years, Walker warned Congress–and the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations–that America faced a large and growing fiscal imbalance due largely to known demographic trends and rising health care costs. Unfortunately, the numbers have gotten worse and our fiscal gap has grown dramatically in recent years. Walker’s book includes a range of policy proposals to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter our health care system, reform our tax system, and re-engineer the base of the federal government —all taking into account the Obama Administration's efforts to-date. It lays out a comprehensive reform plan that Walker maintains is needed to ensure that America's future will be better than its past.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click here Start: 7:00 pm
Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street Jim Wallis When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is How will this crisis change us? The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation. We need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means. In the pages of this book, Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy -- one that will guide us on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.
Friends Select School This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please RSVP with Jan Burns at janb@friends-select.org, or call 215.561.5900 ex. 129 if you plan to attend. Walk-ins will be admitted the night of the event if seating is available. For more information about the event and Friends Select School, please click here Start: 7:30 pm
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills A prolific historian and critic, Garry Wills won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. His histories—which also include Nixon Agonistes and Inventing America—offer non-traditional, yet thoroughly researched and well-argued theories that one Chicago Tribune reviewer finds “boldly revisionist and intoxicatingly original.” Bomb Power reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation by dramatically increasing the power of the American president and redefining the government as a national security state.
Central Library This is a TICKETED event; $14 General Admission, $7 Students. Tickets on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
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