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SUMMARY:Faculty Book Talk: Jeanne Marie Laskas
DESCRIPTION:Gather in the Thornburgh Room at the Hillman Library to hear 
 Univeristy of Pittsburgh faculty read selections and moderate discussions 
 focused around their recently published work of non-fiction.\n\nOne of the 
 most important politics books of the year\, To Obama is a record of a time 
 when politics intersected with empathy. Every day\, President Obama 
 received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every 
 night\, he read ten of them before going to bed. In To Obama\, Jeanne Marie 
 Laskas interviews President Obama\, the letter-writers themselves and the 
 White House staff in the Office of Presidential Correspondence who were 
 witness to the millions of pleas\, rants\, thank-yous and apologies that 
 landed in the mailroom during the Obama years. There is Peggy\, a patriotic 
 grandmother who thinks the President is trying to lead the country into 
 socialism\; James\, who on the morning after the 2016 election tells the 
 President to start packing\; and Dawn\, who writes to say that he made it 
 possible for a very jaded generation to begin to hope and believe in the 
 good.They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation\, in their 
 darkest times of need\, with anger\, fear and respect. To Obama is an 
 intimate look at one man's relationship with the American people\, and at 
 how this extraordinary dialogue shaped an era-defining presidency.
LOCATION:Hillman Library\, Thornburgh Room (First Floor)\, Pittsburgh
ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Thompson":MAILTO:mjt96@pitt.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Michael Thompson":MAILTO:mjt96@pitt.edu
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