Page 12 - Program 2018

Wednesday 11:30am–12:15 pm

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory The 2016 Election
Tim Miller, Amie Parnes, and
Richard North Patterson
The Civil War, Slavery and The Underground Railroad Wednesday 11:30 am–12:15 pm
Jon Meacham and Colson Whitehead Jack London Room
Wednesday 11:30 am–12:15 pm The 58th quadrennial presidential election was held on Tuesday, November
John Steinbeck Room 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana

Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of
Prize-winning biographer, will talk about our nation’s struggle to save the Union State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. On January
and the role slavery played in the Civil War that ensued. Whitehead immersed 6, 2017, just weeks before the inauguration of the 45th president, the United
himself in the slave narrative based on WPA oral histories from 200 years ago that States government’s intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government
resulted in his award-winning novel, The Underground Railroad. interfered in the election. Tim Miller, Amie Parnes and Richard North Patterson
will discuss why the 2016 election will loom large in our country’s history.
Moderated by Patt Morrison.

LUNCH

12:15 pm
Join us outside for a
delicious boxed lunch
of your choice

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