CGA Public Events Series
IN PRINT
Co-sponsored by Foreign Affairs
This series features James F. Hoge, editor, and Peter G. Peterson chair of Foreign Affairs, chairman of the International Center for Journalists, and CGA advisory board member , in conversation with leading journalists, authors, and filmmakers. Events are followed by book signings and a light reception.
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FRED KAPLAN
Fred Kaplan writes the “War Stories” column in Slate and has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, New Yorker, the New Republic, and other publications. He is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow. Fred Kaplan combines high-level reporting with razor-sharp analysis to examine President Bush’s foreign policy. Kaplan argues that the foreign policies unleashed by Bush and other “daydream believers” stemmed not from incompetence, but from two misconceptions: that the way the world works changed after 9/11; and that America emerged from its Cold War victory stronger than before. Nonfiction. Wiley. February 2008 |
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SAMANTHA POWER
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she was the founding executive director. If there is a single individual who can be said to have been at center stage through all of the
most significant humanitarian and geopolitical crises of the late 20th and early 21st century, it
was Sergio Vieira de Mello. By taking the measure of this remarkable man’s life and career, Power
offers a fascinating answer to the question: Who possesses the moral authority, the political
sense, and the military and economic heft to protect human life and bring peace to the unruly new
world
Nonfiction. Penguin. March 2008 |
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PHILIP GOUREVITCH
Philip Gourevitch is the award-winning author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and A Cold Case. He is the editor of the Paris Review and a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Standard Operating Procedure reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the iconic photographs of the Iraq war—the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world—and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than 200 hours of Errol Morris’s startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written an account of Iraq’s occupation from the inside out—rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in a breakdown of command authority and moral order. Nonfiction. Penguin. April 2008 |