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Get Lit: Win a copy of Sam Tanenhaus' The Death of Conservatism

POSTED: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 6:43 PM
Filed Under: Arts | Get Lit

Random House, 144 pp.,
$17, Sept. 1
It feels like summer today, so I don't see why we shouldn't keep this summertime-book-giveaway train chugging along.

Today we're giving away a copy of New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus' The Death of Conservatism — just in time for his talk tonight at the Central Branch of the Free Library.

Here's what freelibrary.org has to say about Tanenhaus, whose appearance tonight is part of the Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture Series:

Tanenhaus is the author of the National Book Award finalist Whittaker Chambers, a biography of the man whose accusations sparked the post-war crusade against suspected American communists. His new book, The Death of Conservatism, argues that modern conservatism is a counter-revolutionary movement with two sides: "realists” who believe in tradition and "revanchists” who often find themselves at war with the United States.

Mr. Tanenhaus will be interviewed on-stage by Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

To win a copy, answer this trivia question:

Sam Tanenhaus can be heard chatting with authors and critics on what weekly podcast?

E-mail carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win.

Sam Tanenhaus reading/signing, Tue., Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., $14, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

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