Rachel Maddow

TICKET HOLDERS: Beginning at noon on Tuesday, March 27, tickets and books will be available for pick-up at Harvard Book Store, located at 1256 Mass Ave.
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Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome MSNBC's Emmy Award–winning political commentator RACHEL MADDOW for a discussion of her first book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.

Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan's radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.

Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about how, when, and where to apply America's strength and power--and who gets to make those decisions.

“In Drift, Rachel Maddow brings her passion, wit, cool common sense and intellectual firepower to the epic and darkly farcical story of how America has declined into an overfunded and unchecked national security state--one that inflicts more damage on America’s assets, our military included, than it does on our adversaries. At a crossroads when Americans of all stripes are rethinking their country’s priorities, Maddow’s compelling take on how we drifted into the costly habit of perennial war--and how we might yet reverse it--could not be more timely.” --Frank Rich, writer-at-large, New York Magazine

TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE SOLD OUT.

PLEASE NOTE: Rachel Maddow will only be signing copies of Drift (limit of 3 per person). Due to the size of this event, Ms. Maddow will not have time to personalize books. Thank you.