George Scialabba

discusses

Low Dishonest Decades:
Essays & Reviews 1980-2015

in conversation with RANDALL KENNEDY

This event includes a book signing

Date

Dec
12
Monday
December 12, 2016
8:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome GEORGE SCIALABBA, author of What Are Intellectuals Good For? and Divided Mind, for a discussion of his latest book, Low Dishonest Decades: Essays & Reviews 1980-2015. Scialabba will be joined in conversation by Harvard Law School's RANDALL KENNEDY.

About Low Dishonest Decades

Low Dishonest Decades charts the thirty-five years in which income inequality has established itself in America as a fundamental problem. Thomas Geoghegan praises this book as "a matchless political education" by a writer David Bromwich describes as "a keeper of the conscience of American radicalism." George Scialabba's prose is clearly written, humane in outlook and thought provoking, qualities missing from our current public discourse.

George Scialabba
George Scialabba

George Scialabba

George Scialabba was born in 1948 in East Boston to working-class parents. He was educated at Harvard and Columbia and was a social worker for five years in the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and a clerical worker for thirty-five years in Harvard University. He has been a freelance book critic for forty years and taught for two years in the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 1991 he won the first Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.

Randall Kennedy
Randall Kennedy

Randall Kennedy

Randall Kennedy obtained his schooling at St. Albans School, Princeton University, and Yale Law School.  He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.  Kennedy is a professor at Harvard Law School, a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia and the United States supreme Court, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.  A contributor to a wide range of publications, Kennedy has also written several books, the most recent of which is Say it Loud! On Race, Law, History and Culture.

 
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