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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit

Sun, Nov 4, 2007

Lou Dobbs discusses his latest book, *Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit*. Dobbs has examined the US's public policy choices over the past 30 years. He lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened the rest of America to the breaking point. He explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans.

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Terror Dream: The Post-9/11 American Psyche

Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her new book, *The Terror Dream*, a dissection of the mind of America after 9/11. Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. *The Terror Dream* shows what 9/11 revealed about us and offers us the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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Karin Slaughter: Beyond Reach

Wed, Aug 22, 2007

Georgia author Karin Slaughter discusses her latest crime thriller, *Beyond Reach*. Sara Linton, resident medical examiner and pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia, must defend herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit and clear the name of a wrongly accused friend. Slaughter's other novels include *Triptych*, *Faithless*, and *Blindsighted*.

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Kristin Gore: Sammy's House

Wed, Jul 18, 2007

Kristin Gore, Al Gore's daughter, discusses her novel about life in the White House. The heroine of her bestselling debut, *Sammy's Hill*, returns in *Sammy's House*. Samantha Joyce is many things: health care policy advisor, hypochondriac, lover of Japanese Fighting Fish, and of Charlie Lawton, her Washington Post reporter boyfriend.

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Archivist's Story: Secrets of the Lubyanka Prison

Tue, Jul 10, 2007

Travis Holland discusses his first novel *The Archivist's Story*, which explores the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison in Russia, where a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there.

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Can We Talk about Race?

Thu, May 17, 2007

Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the *Brown v. Board of Education* decision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?* and *Assimilation Blues*.

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Hank Klibanoff: American Awakening and the Race Beat

Thu, Dec 7, 2006

Hank Klibanoff, lecturing from his book *The Race Beat*, tells the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South, and the brutality used to enforce it. Klibanoff discusses how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the 20th century.

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Fiasco: American Military Adventure in Iraq

Wed, Aug 1, 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks discusses the American military adventure in Iraq, with a preface on recent developments.

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Scandal of the Season: Gossip in 18th Century London

Tue, Aug 14, 2007

Sophie Gee discusses her book *Scandal of the Season*, an erotic, witty drama about life in 18th century London, a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears that threatened to erupt in political violence. *Scandal of the Season* is supposedly a fictionalized account of the true story behind Alexander Pope's 1712 poem, "The Rape of the Lock." When Pope composed his satirical epic, he was shining a spotlight on a suspected affair between the British aristocrats Arabella Fermor and Lord Robert Petre, two mainstays of the London scene. The intrigue became common knowledge when Petre publicly cut off a lock of Fermor's hair, providing fodder for gossip writers of the time.

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What Is Team Trivia?

Tue, Feb 5, 2008

Author and all-time *Jeopardy!* champion Ken Jennings poses brain-teasing questions from his new release, *Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days*. Like a farmer's almanac, the trivia almanac devotes a page to every day of the year: but instead of predicting the weather, it offers trivia questions pegged to oddball historic events that occurred on that date.

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