TOWN HALL SOUTH
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Brian Greene
October 7, 2008
Brian
Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and a
brilliant communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts.
In his national best-seller, The Elegant Universe, Greene
recounts how the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics
transformed our understanding of the universe and takes us on a
thrilling journey through hidden dimensions, superstrings, and black
holes in a quest to unify the laws of nature.
His latest book, The Fabric of the Cosmos:
Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, inspired The
Washington Post to describe him as “the single best explainer of
abstruse concepts in the world today.”
With artful metaphors and humorous analogies, Greene helps us to
better understand the universe’s rules—the laws of physics—so that
we can more deeply appreciate our lives within it. A Harvard graduate
and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Greene is a professor in both Physics
and Mathematics at Columbia University.
Martha Raddatz
November 11, 2008
In
November 2005, Martha Raddatz was named ABC News Chief White House
Correspondent, where she reports on all aspects of the Bush
Administration for World News Tonight, Nightline, and
other ABC News broadcasts.
Previously, she was the network’s national security
correspondent.
She joined ABC News in January 1999 as State Department
correspondent and began covering the Pentagon in May 2003.
No longer on the military beat, Raddatz returns to Iraq every few
months to be with the troops.
In her first book, Long Road Home, she chronicles an
ambush on April 4, 2004, of an Army platoon on a routine peacekeeping
mission in Sadr City, having never before seen combat.
Additionally, Raddatz has written for The New Republic and
appears frequently on PBS’ Washington Week in Review.
Anna Deavere Smith
December 2, 2008
Hailed
by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual in American
theater,” playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith uses
her singular brand of theater to combine the journalistic technique of
interviewing subjects from all walks of life with the art of recreating
their words in performance. Most commonly known for her role as national
Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC’s The West Wing, Ms.
Smith has also appeared in the films The Human Stain, Philadelphia,
Dave, The American President, and on TV’s The Practice.
She is also the author of several books and plays including, Talk
To Me: Travels in Media & Politics, where she raises our
attention to “the power of the media in shaping our ‘truths.’”
Smith is a tenured professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at
New York University and teaches a course on “The Art of Listening”
at the NYU School of Law. Her new play, Let Me Down Easy, debuted
in 2007.
David Sanger
February 3, 2009
David
Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times,
provides compelling front-page analyses of national and international
events. His
columns dig deep to explain the most complex events of our time.
For 24 years as a Times correspondent covering a wide
range of topics, Sanger is one of the nation’s must lucid analysts.
Sanger’s career started as a business reporter in the early
days of the computer industry, and he served as the Times’
Bureau Chief in Tokyo.
He has been a regular on public affairs and news shows, including
PBS’ Washington Week in Review, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
Charlie Rose, and Face the Nation.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sanger is a
graduate of Harvard College.
His first book, The Inheritance:
The World America Now Faces, will be released in January 2009
and will examine the Bush administration’s legacy and the complex
challenges facing the next president.
Jeannette Walls
March 3, 2009
Jeannette
Walls is the author of the powerful memoir, The Glass Castle, which
has been on the New York Times best-seller list for over 18
months. In The Glass Castle, Walls describes growing up in the
desert of the American Southwest and then in a West Virginia mining town
with her three siblings and the brilliant, unorthodox, irresponsible
parents who manage at once to neglect them, love them, and teach them to
face their fears. Despite her hardships, Walls develops the
determination to leave West Virginia at the age of 16, move to New York
City, enroll in Barnard College, and eventually become a well-known
columnist for New York Magazine and
MSNBC.com, as well as a TV personality, appearing on GMA,
Larry King Live, and Oprah.
Walls lives in the Virginia piedmont with her writer husband,
John Taylor, and has been working on her second book. A major motion
picture about her life is currently being developed.
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