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Events
02 / 9
Start: 12:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: The Olympic Games, born of diplomatic and political design, have always played an important role in international politics. The Olympics provide a stage for both international cooperation and peaceful competition, as well as international conflict and confrontation. Join Active Minds as we explore the rich history of the Olympics and how the games have been involved in a variety of international political issues over the years. This community lecture is sponsored by the Douglas County Libraries. Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: In celebration of Black History Month, local journalist, sports writer, and author, Denny Dressman will discuss and sign the new book Eddie Robinson “…he was the Martin Luther King of football” ($24.95 ComServ Books), which presents one of the most extraordinary careers in the history of college football, set in the context of the Deep South’s Jim Crow Era of segregation. This biography blends Robinson’s responses to historic social and political events with his efforts to put tiny Grambling University and black college football on the national map; and the result is a unique portrait of both African-American history and a sports icon’s life. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 10
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02 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Several contributors to the book A Dozen on Denver: Stories ($22.00 Fulcrum), will join us to read from and sign this wonderful book. In this original tribute, twelve talented authors, including Margaret Coel, Pam Houston, Sandra Dallas, Nick Arvin, Joanne Greenberg, Connie Willis, Manuel Ramos, Arnold Grossman, Robert Greer, Diane Mott Davidson, Laura Pritchett, and Robert Pogue Ziegler, celebrate Denver’s 150th anniversary, each creating a unique story based on a different decade in the city’s colorful history. Ranging from the pioneer days to WWII aftermath to a haunting vision of the future, this lively volume offers an eclectic mix of exceptional storytelling, each complemented by contemporary illustrations. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Mark Lee Gardner has written a broad range of books and articles on the American West, including a number of interpretive guides for the National Park Service on subjects ranging from George Custer to Geronimo. As an historian and consultant, he has worked with museums, historic sites, and humanities councils throughout the West. He has also been a visiting professor in the Southwest Studies Department at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Gardner will discuss and sign his new book To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West ($26.99 HarperCollins), the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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02 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Highlands Ranch: Lauren Conrad is the star of MTV’s hit show, The Hills, and author of the bestselling novel L.A. Candy. She launched her career as a fashion designer in the spring 2008 with the debut of the Lauren Conrad Collection, and has been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Conrad will sign copies of her new novel Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel ($17.99 HarperCollins). Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be available Tuesday, February 2, at 9:00 a.m., with the purchase of Sweet Little Lies at any Tattered Cover location. Each ticket will admit one person to the booksigning line. Ms. Conrad will sign up to two books for each ticketed guest. She will not be able to personalize books, nor will she sign memorabilia. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: SafeHouse Denver joins us in presenting Chris Bohjalian, the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast, as he reads from and signs his new novel The Secrets of Eden ($25.00 Shaye Areheart). Bohjalian’s new book is a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, domestic abuse, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. This event will feature a silent auction for a set of signed Chris Bohjalian books donated by the Tattered Cover. All proceeds from the silent auction will benefit SafeHouse Denver. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 13
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02 / 14
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02 / 15
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Award-winning author Thomas Mullen will read from and sign his evocative new novel The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers ($26.00 Random House), the highly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed debut, The Last Town on Earth. The novel follows the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson—bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by the press, the authorities, and an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. Complete with kidnappings and gangsters, heiresses and speakeasies, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers is an imaginative and spirited saga about what happens when you are hopelessly outgunned—and a masterly tale of hardship, redemption, and love that transcends death. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Lisa See, the bestselling author whose novels include Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Dragon Bones, will read from and sign the new paperback edition of her novel Shanghai Girls ($15.00 Random House). In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are—Shanghai girls. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 16
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Scott Selby, a Harvard Law grad and diamond expert, and Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds, will discuss and sign their new book Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History ($24.95 Sterling). On February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium and made off with over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds and other valuables. They did so without tripping an alarm or injuring a single guard in the process. Selby and Campbell undertook a global goose chase to uncover the true story behind the daring heist. Their book—a combination of diamond history, journalistic reportage, and riveting true-crime story—provides a thrilling in-depth study detailing the better-than-fiction heist of the century. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 17
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Local author Kirk Farber will read from and sign his debut novel Postcards from a Dead Girl ($13.99 HarperCollins). Farber has written a touching, almost cinematic, novel featuring the eccentric, slightly disturbed, and unique character Sid, who finds himself—among various other darkly comic scenarios—obsessed by the mysterious European postcards that arrive in the mail from his ex-girlfriend. Wonderfully poignant, funny, odd, and more than a bit macabre, Postcards from a Dead Girl marks the emergence of a truly gifted and original literary voice. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 18
Start: 6:00 pm
Colfax Avenue: There are so many great books being published, it can be difficult to decide what to read with your book club. We have the perfect solution for this admittedly good problem to have, Book Club Happy Hour! Join us as Tattered Cover staff members and publisher’s sales representatives offer their favorite choices for book club reading and discussing. Find out what other book clubs are reading and mingle while enjoying wine and light refreshments. There is no cost to attend, but reservations are required. Please call 303-322-1965 ext. 2739 to make a reservation.
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion, public life, faith, and politics. He is president and CEO of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. Wallis will discuss and sign his new book Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street ($24.00 Simon & Schuster). Wallis believes we need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means. Some of the principles he unpacks for our new normal are: Spending money we don’t have for things we don’t need is a bad foundation for an economy or a family. It’s time to stop keeping up with the Joneses and start making sure the Joneses are okay. The values of commercials and billboards are not the things we want to teach our children. Care for the poor is not just a moral duty but is critical for the common good. And more. In the pages of this book, Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 19
Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Local author Paula Reed is an English teacher at Columbine High School of Littleton, Colorado. Reed will read from and sign her debut Hester: The Missing Years of the The Scarlet Letter ($24.99 St. Martin’s). “Have you ever closed The Scarlet Letter and yearned to see what the future holds for Hester Prynne and her headstrong daughter Pearl? Paula Reed’s richly imagined novel transports us across the sea to Interregnum England, where these two unique American women face political intrigue, discover passion, and seek their fortune in the shadow of Cromwell’s England.” —Katherine Howe, bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 20
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02 / 21
Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Dr. ben Lazreg PhD, L’Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, has conducted surveys throughout central and coastal Tunisia, with a specialization in the mosaics of Roman Tunisia. This should prove to be an enlightening afternoon while we learn about his studies of mosaics and Roman kilns.
PDF of the AIA Lecture Series. | ||
02 / 22
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Adam Haslett is the author of You Are Not a Stranger Here, a short story collection, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and won the PEN/Winship Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Zoetrope, and Best American Short Stories as well as National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Haslett will read from and sign his debut novel Union Atlantic ($26.00 Nan Talese), a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 23
Start: 5:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: As perhaps one of the most colorful Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin lived a life of lasting impact. As politician, publisher, inventor and diplomat, Franklin left his mark on all he touched. Join Active Minds as we trace the life of this extraordinary man and tell some of the stories that mark his legacy. Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London, and his first novel, Incendiary, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award; and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. Cleave will read from and sign the new paperback edition of his second novel, Little Bee ($14.00 Simon & Schuster), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. “The voice that speaks from the first page of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is one you might never have heard—the voice of a smart, wary, heartsick immigrant scarred by the terrors of her past. …Read this urgent and wryly funny novel for its insights into simple humanity, the force that can disarm fear.” —O Magazine Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 24
Start: 3:00 pm
Highlands Ranch Coffee & Tea Shop: Join us to learn more about the wonderful world of tea by sipping them directly with an expert. Chris Chantler of Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea will present a tasting of three remarkable teas from India and Taiwan. The cost of the event is $15.00 per person and includes tea samples and tasty finger foods. Space is limited, please call 303-322-1965 ext.3503 or e-mail kathy.esher@tatteredcover.com for reservations.
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Thomas Ricks is The Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks will discuss and sign the new paperback edition of his bestselling book The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 ($17.00 Penguin Press). Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 25
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Jeffrey Siger left his life as a lawyer in New York City to write of mystery and intrigue on his beloved Greek island paradise of Mykonos—as only a local could. Siger will read from and sign the second book in his Inspector Kaldis series Assassins of Athens ($24.99 Poisoned Pen Press). When the body of a boy from one of Greece’s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens’ worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police’s Special Crimes Division is certain there’s a message in the murder. But who sent it and why? Andreas’ politically incorrect search for answers takes him deep into the sordid, criminal side of Athens nightlife and on to the glittering world of Athens society where age-old frictions between old money and new breed jealousy, murder, revenge, revolutionaries, and some very dangerous truths. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 26
Start: 6:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Kids can wear their favorite jammies and enjoy stories, a fun activity, and healthy snacks provided by local Whole Foods Markets. Parents can pick up coupons and enjoy specials at the coffee shop.
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Max Watman, the horse-racing correspondent for the New York Sun, is author of Race Day: A Spot on the Rail with Max Watman, an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review. A regular contributor to the New York Times’ Arts and Letters pages, he has covered books, music, food, and drink, and for six years, wrote the semi-annual Fiction Chronicle—an omnibus review of important novels and short story collections—for The New Criterion. Watman will discuss and sign his fascinating new book Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine ($25.00 Simon & Schuster). In Chasing the White Dog, Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey’s lore. Along the way, Watman chronicles his hilarious attempts to distill his own moonshine—the essential ingredients and the many ways it can all go wrong—from his initial ill-fated batch to his first successful jar of ‘shine. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
02 / 27
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02 / 28
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03 / 1
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Yehuda Berg is the co-director of Kabbalah Centre International, the leading organization dedicated for more than 80 years to bringing the wisdom of Kabbalah to all the people of the world. Berg will discuss and sign his new book The Power to Change Everything ($14.95 Kabbalah Publishing), a progressive manual for daily life, designed to awaken consciousness and create personal and global change. In his book, Berg examines the problematic areas of politics, religion, environment, and economy, and demonstrates how, by simply shifting our mindset, we can transform everything in the world, no matter how bleak the situation appears to be. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: Colorado author Marni Jameson is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and serial home improver who writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, Woman’s Day, and other publications. Jameson will discuss and sign her book House of Havoc ($16.95 Da Capo), an indispensable guide for making the most of the house you have without driving everyone around you nuts. The cupboards are overflowing, the linen closet holds towels and tools, and your once tidy family room might as well come with a ringmaster. But that’s called living, right? Wrong! Marni Jameson is here to prove that you can turn a hectic home into a haven, and decorate so your home appeal goes up and your blood pressure goes down. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 2
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03 / 3
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin will discuss and sign his new book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 ($25.95 Penguin), in which he looks ahead 40 years, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by mid-century will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. Kotkin’s book provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society—families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, and the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Oracle Bones and River Town. Hessler will present a slide show and sign Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory ($27.99 HarperCollins), the third and final book in his award-winning China trilogy. Country Driving addresses the human side of the economic revolution in China, focusing on economics and development, and shows how the auto boom helps China shift from urban to rural, from farming to business. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 4
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina; The Wild Things, a novelization of Maurice Sendak’s beloved picture book; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco, that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. Eggers will discuss and sign his various works. Free numbered tickets for a place in line for the booksigning will be available at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 5
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: A native of New York City’s Greenwich Village and a younger beat poet, John Ross tore up his draft card in 1957 and moved to Mexico. He has been covering Latin America for the past 50 years for print and electronic media outlets, among them the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Noticias Aliadas, La Jornada, and Counterpunch. Ross will discuss and sign his new book El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City ($28.95 Nation). No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls from the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo’s very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets. In El Monstruo, Ross now does. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 6
Start: 6:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Colorado author Dan Simmons, acclaimed for his science fiction, horror and history novels, including the Hyperion books, The Terror, and Drood, will read from and sign his new historic ghost story Black Hills ($25.99 Reagan Arthur Books). Seamlessly weaving together the stories of Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, General George Armstrong Custer, and the American West, Simmons depicts a tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans. Haunted by Custer’s ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa’s long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people’s sacred Black Hills. In August of 1936, as a dynamite worker on the massive Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people’s legacy—on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:00 pm
Starz FilmCenter: Join the Tattered Cover Book Store, UCD’s College of Arts & Media, Colorado Public Radio, and the Starz FilmCenter for an exploration of the world of classic movies, hosted by Colorado Public Radio film critic Howie Movshovitz at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli. All programs begin at 7:00 pm at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli. Admission is free, but tickets are required from the box office. Tickets are available one hour before screening. Validated parking is avilable in the parking lot directly in front of the Tivoli. This month’s movie is the 1951 Charles Crichton classic The Lavender Hill Mob. A great British comedy with Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway as a pair of inexperienced and most unlikely crooks who steal an armored car full of gold, melt it down and then cast it into hundreds of models of the Eiffel Tower. A comic genius, Guinness is a master of stillness and reserve. Years after this film, director Charles Crichton made A Fish Called Wanda. (82 minutes)
For information on the Starz FilmCenter go to starzfilmcenter.com | ||
03 / 7
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Colfax Avenue: Chris Vasquez, accomplished Denver based guitarist and teacher at Flesher-Hinton, will perform new compositions on Flamenco Guitar. Start: 2:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Have we been here longer than we thought? Join Steven Holen, PhD, Curator of Archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, as he presents new evidence suggesting that humans arrived in North America before the Last Glacial Maximum; possibly as early as 30,000-40,000 years ago. PDF of the AIA Lecture Series. | ||
03 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
Colfax Avenue: Grammy Award-winner Judy Collins will read from and sign the wonderful new picture book Over the Rainbow ($17.95 Imagine). The classic song, made famous by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, has been transformed into a magnificent picture book and CD set. Breathtaking and magical artwork by Eric Puybaret will carry young readers from a little red farmhouse, up over the rainbow, into the sky where bluebirds fly and castles rise high in the clouds, and beyond. The extraordinary soundtrack is performed by Judy Collins, who has recorded what might be the very best version of “Over the Rainbow” ever sung. As an added bonus, the enclosed CD also contains two delightful additional songs recorded by Judy Collins. Free numbered tickets for a place in line for the booksigning will be available at 6:00 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 9
Start: 12:30 pm
Colfax Avenue:Seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. policy objective is now withdrawal. This only works if Iraq can govern itself and become a self-sufficient nation. Join Active Minds as we look at the potential path for Iraq to stand on its own and the challenges that may be encountered along that road. | ||
03 / 10
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Phyllis Barber’s autobiography, How I Got Cultured, won the 1991 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Prize for Creative Nonfiction and the 1993 Award for Best Autobiography from the Association of Mormon Letters. Barber will read from and sign her new memoir Raw Edges ($26.95 Univ. of Nevada Press). When Barber’s thirty-three-year marriage disintegrated, she had to reconcile the jarring dissonance between her idealistic Mormon vision of marriage as a relationship that would endure through all eternity, and the painful reality of mutual infidelities and disparate needs. Raw Edges reflects the predicament that many women experience as marriages disintegrate, families fall apart, and people fail to achieve the expectations that their society or faith sets for them. It is also a story of hope, of how a woman overcome by grief and confusion eventually reinvents herself and finds a new approach to life. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Debra Berndt, a certified clinical hypnotherapist and dating expert, will discuss and sign her new book Let Love In: Open Your Heart and Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner ($15.95 Wiley). According to Berndt, love starts within you and flows out into the world, not the other way around. Her book will help readers remove blocks to allow true love into their lives. Berndt’s simple three-step plan uses self-hypnosis to create permanent, positive changes to the reader’s self-confidence that will not only attract Mr. or Miss Right, but will affect virtually every area of life as well. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
03 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Heidi Durrow has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Chapter One Fiction Contest. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Lois Roth Endowment, and a Fellowship for Emerging Writers from the Jerome Foundation. Durrow will read from and sign her acclaimed debut novel The Girl Who Fell From the Sky ($22.95 Algonquin), which tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl—and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Prize-winning historian Woody Holton will discuss and sign his new book Abigail Adams: A Life ($30.00 Simon & Schuster), which offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story and of women’s roles in the creation of the republic. Using previously overlooked documents from a host of archives, Abigail Adams shows that the wife of the second president of the United States was far more charismatic and influential than historians have realized. One of the finest writers of her age, Adams passionately campaigned for women’s education, denounced sex discrimination, and matched wits not only with her brilliant husband, John, but with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. At once epic and intimate, Holton’s book sheds light on a complicated, fascinating woman, one of the most beloved figures of American history. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com | ||
