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Wednesday 3–3:45 pm

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory Journey to the Interior
William Finnegan, Alexandra Fuller and
Mishna Wolff
Freedom of the Press Wednesday 3–3:45 pm
Ben Macintyre, Margaret MacMillan and Bret Stephens Jack London Room
Wednesday 3–3:45 pm What is a “life” when it’s written down? How does
John Steinbeck Room memory inform the present? Why are memoirs so

It is hard to imagine a topic more relevant than this one in a year of very public, very loud battles between the popular? And how does one remember all those events,
current administration and the mainstream media. What are the greatest threats to freedom of the press that people and details from so long ago? We are pleased
exist today? How do we protect this most vital of institutions? Our respected panelists Ben Macintyre, Margaret to gather together some of today’s most acclaimed
MacMillan and Bret Stephens will answer these questions and address other issues facing the press in today’s memoirists to answer these and other questions about
turbulent times. Moderated by Amie Parnes. this significant literary genre. Please join William
Finnegan, Alexandra Fuller and Mishna Wolff.
Moderated by Rebecca Mead.

“Memoir is the art of inventing
the truth.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be — William Zinsser
limited without being lost.”
— Thomas Jefferson

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