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Thursday 2–2:45 pm

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory For Better or For Worse
Alexandra Fuller, Hanna Rosin and Ayelet Waldman
Thursday 2–2:45 pm
History’s People Jack London Room
Douglas Brinkley, Margaret MacMillan and Jon Meacham These writers have all written honestly, factually and infamously about marriage, for
Thursday 2–2:45 pm better or for worse. Please welcome Alexandra Fuller, author of Leaving Before the
John Steinbeck Room Rains Come, Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, and
Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day. Their conversation will be moderated
We ask our esteemed panelists one question: Who is your favorite historical
figure? Historians Douglas Brinkley, Margaret MacMillan and Jon Meacham will and joined by Lucie Arnaz.
share their personal selection, some famous and some little-known, who stand
out for them and why. Some have changed the course of history while others are
memorable for less obvious reasons. Moderated by Geoff Cowan.

History matters and we must do it well. When it is

false or one-sided it can be used to mobilize people
for evil ends. At its best history can explain others
and help us to better understand ourselves and
our world.”

— Margaret MacMillan
“You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake
which two people make together.”

— Kay Francis, in Trouble in Paradise (1932)

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