LIVE from the 2011 Annapolis Book Festival

Author Panels Event Coverage

10am-11am Why is War the Answer?

Peter Beinart “The Icarus Syndrome”
Peter Beinart is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time magazine. Mr. Beinart is also the author of "The Good Fight."

Peter Bergen “The Longest War”
Peter Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden." He is a terrorism analyst for CNN and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and Rolling Stone. For more information, visit www.peterbergen.com.

Evan Thomas “The War Lovers”
Evan Thomas is Editor-at-Large of Newsweek, where he was formerly the Washington bureau chief. He is the author of several books, including biographies of John Paul Jones and Robert Kennedy. He is professor of journalism at Princeton University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. For more information, visit evanthomasbooks.com.

 

11am-12pm Ladies Ahead of Their Time

Jehanne Wake “Sisters of Fortune”
Jehanne Wake is the author of several books, including her first book, Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s Unconventional Daughter." She has contributed to BBC television and other English radio programs. For more information, go to www.jehannewake.com

 

12pm-1pm Citizen Scientist

Roy Richard Grinker “Unstrange Minds”
Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology, Human Sciences and International Affairs at the George Washington University. For more. visit www.unstrange.com.

Seth Mnookin “The Panic Virus”
Seth Mnookin, a former senior writer at Newsweek, is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the author of "Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media."For more, visit: sethmnookin.com

 

1pm-2pm Rights of the People

Garrett Graff “The Threat Matrix”
Garrett Graff worked as a webmaster for Howard Dean and was the founding editor of FishbowlDC.com. He is currently an editor at Washingtonian magazine. For more information, go to www.garrettgraff.com

David Shipler “The Rights of the People”
David Shipler was a reporter for the New York Times from 1966 until 1988, and has since written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three other books, including "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land," for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

 

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2pm-3pm Civil War Perspectives

Joseph Glatthaar “General Lee’s Army”
Joseph Glatthaar is the author of several books, including "The March to the Sea and Beyond" which received the Bell Irvin Wiley Award of the National Historical Society; the Fletcher Pratt Award; and the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy.

Annette Gordon-Reed “Andrew Johnson”
Annette Gordon-Reed is a history and law professor at Harvard Unversity. She is the author of "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," was the recipient of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in History. Ms Gordon-Reed is a MacArthur Fellow and has been awarded the National Humanities Medal.

Harold Holzer & Craig Symonds “The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865”
Harold Holzer is the author of numerous books on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, including "Lincoln at Cooper Union" that was the recipient of the Lincoln Prize in 2005. Mr. Holzer is the chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. For more information go to www.haroldholzer.com.
Craig Symonds is the author of numerous books, including "Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History" that was the recipient of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006.

3pm-4pm Does Race Still Matter

Gwen Ifill “The Breakthrough”
Gwen Ifill is the managing editor and moderator of Washington Week and senior correspondent of The PBS Newshour. She was formerly chief congressional correspondent for NBC News and was a reporter for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, and the Boston Herald. Ms. Ifill moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. Gwen Ifill is the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.

Michele Norris “The Grace of Silence”
Michele Norris, a former correspondent for ABC News, is co-host of NPR's All Things Considered. For more, visit: www.michele-norris.com.