22nd Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents Programs for Atlanta's Legal-Minded Community
Presented by Greenberg Traurig and PNC Bank
From November 2-17, 2013, the 22nd Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA, one of the South’s premier literary events, is thrilled to welcome several authors who are practicing and non-practicing attorneys, including: Scott Turow, Gregory J. Wallance, Jeffrey Toobin, Jim T. Barfield, Chris Matthews, Matthew Levitt, and Alan Dershowitz. Most events will be held at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA), 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Interview requests/media inquiries: please contact Lora Sommer, MJCCA PR Manager, 678.812.4078, lora.sommer@atlantajcc.org. To purchase tickets, call 678.812.4005 or visit online at www.atlantajcc.org/bookfestival.
Programs for Atlanta’s Legal-Minded Community Include:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 8:15 pm – (Member: $18 / Community: $24)
Scott Turow, Identical: A Novel
Identical, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of the complex relationships between a family and their former neighbors. The complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal—as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds, and the chilling truth is revealed. Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling works of fiction including Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 7:30 pm (Member: $13 / Community: $18)
Gregory J. Wallance, America’s Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy
At the height of World War II, four lawyers in the U.S. Treasury Department discovered that the highly-educated, patrician diplomats in the State Department had covered up reports of the Nazi scheme to exterminate European Jewry—and then blocked the rescue of 70,000 Romanian Jews forcibly marched into Transnistria in the Nazi-conquered Ukraine and left to die of starvation, disease, and sheer exhaustion. The Treasury lawyers charged the diplomats with being “accomplices of Hitler.”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7:30 pm (Member: $18 / Community: $24)
Jeffrey Toobin, The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
From the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between the Court and the White House has been a fraught one. Grappling with issues as diverse as campaign finance, abortion, and the right to bear arms, the Roberts court has put itself squarely at the center of American political life. A New Yorker staff writer, CNN Senior legal analyst, and a New York Times bestselling author, Toobin brilliantly portrays key personalities and cases. The Oath is an essential guide to understanding the Supreme Court of our interesting times.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:30 pm (Free to the Community)
Jim T. Barfield, Boxcars (*Local Author!)
In May, 1944, a Jewish teenager's career as a promising concert violinist has been derailed, and he is on the run from the Nazis. As two young adults of radically different backgrounds are cast together during war to experience their own distinct coming-of-age epiphany as they painfully explore their increasingly complicated and awkward relationship brewing beneath the canopy of dissonant cultures and beliefs.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7:30 pm (Member: $18 / Community: $24)
Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Jack Kennedy—and Tip O’Neill’s former chief-of-staff—comes the firsthand, one-of-a-kind story of the friendship between President Reagan and the Speaker of the House. They were the political odd couple—the two most powerful men in the country, a pair who, in author Chris Matthews’s words, “couldn’t be more different or more the same.” Matthews brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice, offering us a timely object lesson in how bipartisan cooperation can work.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7:30 pm (Member: $13 / Community: $18)
Matthew Levitt, Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
This program will be “In Conversation” with Dr. Kenneth Stein, Professor, Emory University
(This Program is at The Temple, 1589 Peachtree St., NE, Atlanta)
Hezbollah—Lebanon’s “Party of God”—is a multifaceted organization: It is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia Islam religious and social movement, Lebanon’s largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organization. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Matthew Levitt examines Hezbollah’s beginnings, its first violent forays targeting Western interests in Leba¬non, and then its terrorist activities and criminal enterprises abroad in Europe, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and finally in North America.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 8:00 pm (Member: $18 / Community: $24)
Alan Dershowitz, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law
America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.
About the Book Festival of the MJCCA
The 22nd Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA, one of the South’s premier literary events, features works from more than 40 of this year’s most sought-after and talked-about authors, celebrities, and influencers. More than 10,000 visitors will enjoy engaging speaker programs, author meet-and-greets, book signings, panel discussions, The Family Reading Festival, and more. Most events will be held at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA), 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. To purchase tickets, call the MJCCA Box Office at 678.812.4005, or visit on-line at www.atlantajcc.org/bookfestival.
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