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Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Sol Stern discusses the issue of school choice. Warren Bass assesses JFK’s role in the creation of the modern Middle East. Roy Rogers, Jr. on life with his father and his involvement in the Great American Cowboy Concert Series at Carnegie Hall. Plus Andrew Huebner shares his novel, set during the Gulf War, We Pierce.
Sol Stern
Sol Stern discusses the issue of school choice, Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.
Music: Catch Me If You Can Soundtrack composer Elmer Bernstein
Warren Bass
Warren Bass assesses JFK’s role in the creation of the modern Middle East, Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance.
Warren Bass will be speaking at:
The New Lower Manhattan Borders (100 Broadway)
June 16th 7pm
Shaare Zedek-West 92nd St
June 17th 7:30pm
NYU Bronsman Center
June 18th 7pm
Makor West 67th Street
June 19th 7:30pm
Music: Cobb Soundtrack composer Elliot Goldenthal
Roy Rogers, Jr.
Roy Rogers, Jr. on life with his father, his involvement in the Great American Cowboy Concert Series at Carnegie Hall, and the opening of the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Missouri.
For more info about the concert:
prairierosechuckwagon.com
For more info about the museum:
royrogers.com
Andrew Huebner shares his novel, set during the Gulf War, We Pierce.
Music: Roy Rogers Jr. and The High Riders
"King of the Cowboys"
"Cimmarron"
Andrew Huebner
Andrew Huebner shares his novel, set during the Gulf War, We Pierce. Read an excerpt of We Pierce in the Reading Room.
Andrew Huebner will be reading at
Housing Works on 126 Crosby Street on Thursday May 29th at 7pm.
Music: Blood and Wine Soundtrack composer Michael Lorenic
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