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SUMMARY:Robert Aquinas McNally
DESCRIPTION:Robert Aquinas McNally\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age \nfrom University of Nebraska Press \nOn a cold\, rainy dawn in late November 1872\, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73\, one of the nation’s costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples\, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. \nAlthough little known today\, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California\, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. \nThe war did not end with the last shot fired\, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history\, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt\, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma\, where they found peace even more lethal than war. \nThe Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a “peace policy” toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. \nRobert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord\, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books\, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins\, Whales\, and Men \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Robert McNally:\n\n“McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background.”—Bradley A. Scott\, Foreword Reviews\n“An excellent addition to Robert McNally’s body of work.”—Tombstone Epitaph\n“From the opening scene to the end\, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve\, truly deserving to be called a page-turner. Here is ethnohistory at its best\, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls\, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image \n“Robert McNally’s page-turning The Modoc War is one of the finest books ever written on this tragic history.”—Benjamin Madley\, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe\, 1846–1873\n“Robert McNally’s history of the Modoc War\, convincingly told from engrossing start to finish\, tells the story of an American tragedy\, but not without powerfully illustrating the nobility and endurance of the people who suffered it.”—Greg Sarris\, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n“Well paced\, with vividly drawn characters and exciting\, dramatic prose\, Robert Aquinas McNally’s narrative history of the Modoc War is the most thoroughly researched and historically accurate account of that tragedy to date. A tour de force of historical storytelling\, The Modoc War is an insightful exploration of one of America’s most important but forgotten Indian wars.”—Boyd Cothran\, author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-aquinas-mcnally/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Neiwert / Alt America
DESCRIPTION:Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world\, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists\, xenophobes\, militia leaders\, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11\, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president\, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio\, TV\, and online\, the far right\, Tea Party movement conservatives\, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon\, Milo Yiannopoulos\, and Alex Jones\, once rightly dismissed as cranks\, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism. \nInvestigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America\, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism\, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage\, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right\, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society. \n— \nDavid Neiwert is a journalist and author and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360\, CNN Newsroom\, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His work has also appeared in the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, Salon\, and other publications. His previous books include The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right\, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community\, as well as And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border\, which won the 2014 International Latino Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-neiwert-alt-america/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Saunders with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children’s book\, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker\, Harper’s and GQ. In 2006\, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” In 2000\, The New Yorker named him one of the “Best Writers Under 40.”  He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders-with-dan-stone/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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