Speakers News: Oct 07
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 The Death of Environmentalism (As We Know It)
Break Through, the new book by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, "could turn out to be the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" (Wired)
In "The Death of Environmentalism," their 2004 essay that sparked worldwide debate, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus argued that traditional environmentalism—a political failure whose greatest victories were in the Sixties—is insufficient to deal with our gravest ecological threat: global warming. With their highly anticipated new book, Break Through, they articulate the new politics of possibility that must take its place: one based not on complaints, but aspirations. In their rousing speeches, they examine the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself, and show us that global warming is not an unstoppable crisis, but rather a rallying call for the potential of mankind's ingenuity.
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An Illuminating Look at Life with Asperger’s
Augusten Burroughs' older brother has written a fascinating exploration of life inside the autism spectrum
John Elder Robison lived the first forty years of his life unaware that he had Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. His brother, Augusten Burroughs, wrote about him in Running with Scissors, and in his subsequent bestsellers. Now, Robison has written his own memoir, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's. Already a bestseller based on pre-orders, the book is receiving critical acclaim from the press, and major support from the autism community. In his speeches, full of humor, unguarded introspection and compassion, Robison tells us how he overcame tremendous odds to lead a remarkable life. "Growing up, my brother ws the stortyteller in the family," Burroughs says. Audiences hearing Robison's talks would agree.
Watch a Very Funny Video of Augusten Burroughs Interviewing John Elder Robison
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 Celebrating a Seminal Moment in Civil Rights History
Fifty years ago this fall, Minnijean Brown Trickey forever changed the course of education in America. She’s still speaking out today
In 1957, flanked by over a thousand armed guards, Minnijean Brown Trickey, as part of the Little Rock Nine, walked into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her actions that day led to the desegregation of public schools in America, and stand as a landmark achievement in the Civil Rights Movement. Recently at Harvard, for the premier screening of a new HBO film, Little Rock: 50 Years Later, Trickey spoke—as she often does—to an audience of students, and answered their many questions about the ongoing crusade for equal rights in America. That same evening, she received a medal from the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Read "Return to a Showdown at Little Rock" from The New York Times
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 Religious Literacy Wins a 2007 Quill Award
Stephen Prothero’s provocative bestseller joins books by Al Gore, Amy Sedaris and Cormac McCarthy
When it was released a few months ago, Stephen Prothero’s Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t debuted on the New York Times bestseller list, inspired a Time magazine cover story, and landed the author on Oprah and The O’Reilly Factor. One of his central arguments— that the academic study of world religions should be mandatory in both high school and higher education—caused a flurry of debate. Now, Prothero’s book has won a 2007 Quill Award, which was established in part by NBC to raise public awareness of great books.
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