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Thursday 4–4:45 pm

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory

The Candidate
Susan Eisenhower, Tim Miller and Karl Rove
Thursday 4–4:45 pm
John Steinbeck Room

We will always remember 2016 as an election year built on surprises.
This panel discussion promises to be full of inside the Beltway
knowledge yielding a conversation full of experience and a probing
look at the volatile voting landscape of a deeply divided country. Susan
Eisenhower is a consultant with a resume in many policymaking areas.
Tim Miller, as the former spokesman for Jeb Bush, lives in a world of
campaign research and finely honed communication. Karl Rove brings
data analysis and great skill in marketing a candidate. Moderated by
Van Gordon Sauter.

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Thursday 4–4:45 pm

Jack London Room
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik
tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the
street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never
worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most
tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Find out
what becomes of Count Rostov from best-selling novelist Amor Towles and his beguiling
inquisitor, Daisy Lewis.

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