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2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Obama: Two Years In"

Eric Alterman; Garrett Graff; Katrina vanden Heuvel

About the Program

From the 2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a panel entitled "Obama: Two Years In" featuring Eric Alterman, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama, Garrett Graff, The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation.  The panel is moderated by Steve Clemons, executive vice president of the New America Foundation and takes place at the Campus Center Ballroom on the campus of the University of Southern California.

About the Authors

Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is a columnist for The Nation and The Daily Beast as well as an English and Journalism professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School.  He is the author of numerous books, including What Liberal Media? 


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Garrett Graff

Garrett Graff  is the author of The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House.  He is the editor-in-chief of The Washingtonian and the founding editor of FishbowlDC.com. For more information, go to garrettgraff.com


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Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. She is the editor of  The Dictionary of Republicanisms and co-editor of Taking Back America - and Taking Down the Radical Right

Program Information

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Obama: Two Years In"

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