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High Noon in the Cold WarThe Past Tense
Max Frankel revisits one of the most notoriously tense moments of US history in his new book, High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Abelardo Morell experiments with the notions of outside and inside space in his new book of photographs, Camera Obscura. Media critics Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall of the online Guerrilla News Network criticize mainstream news, and offer some important lesser-known stories in True Lies. And Jonathan Sarna examines 350 years of Jewish history in the New World in his new book: American Judaism.
Max Frankel
Max Frankel revisits the tense moments of the Cuban missile crisis in High Noon in the Cold War.
» Read an excerpt of High Noon in the Cold War in the Reading Room
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Events: Max Frankel will interviewed by David Halberstam on:
Wednesday, October 13th at 6:30 pm
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
For More Information, please call: 212/930-0855
Tickets cost $25
Music: Soundtrack to Cobb, music by Elliot Goldenthal: "Cooperstown Aria" / "Stump Meets Cobb"
Abelardo Morell
Abelardo Morell on turning living rooms into cameras. His new book of photography focuses on the technique of Camera Obscura.
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Events:
Abelardo Morell will be giving a lecture and signing books Wednesday, October 13 at 6pm at the International Center of Photography (43rd and Avenue of the Americas)
Abelardo Morell has a show that’s opening on Friday, October 15 at the Bonnie Benrubi gallery (41 East 57th Street) – it runs through December 4th
Music: Lonesome, Alloy Orchestra: "Lonesome Waltz" / "Jim"
Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall
Media critics Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall on the True Lies of mainstream news.
» More on the book
» More on Guerilla News Network
Music: Soundtrack to Erin Brockovitch, music by Thomas Newman: "On the Plume" / "Classifieds"
Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan Sarna on 350 years American Judaism.
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Music: Wandering Jew, Yale Strom & Klazzj: "70 West 77th"
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Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Leonard is on Facebook
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