Book Reading/Signing/Discussion May 11, 2007

Who: David Pietrusza, Author of “1920: The Year of Six Presidents”
What: Reading/Discussion/Book signing (Books from Mobile Libris; Wines from 67Wines)
When: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:00 PM
Where: West Side YMCA-- The George Washington Lounge
5 West 63rd Street (between Central Park West & Broadway)
Accessible Trains: A, C, B, D, 1 & 9 to Columbus Circle.
Cost: Admission Free and Open to the Public
For More Info: Contact Glenn Raucher, Literary Arts Director, (212) 875-4124, [email protected]

About the Author
David Pietrusza is winner of both the CASEY and F.C. Lane Awards, having authored or edited over thirty books. His Rothstein: The Life Times and Legend of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series earned an Edgar Award Nomination for Best Fact Crime Book of the Year. His Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis captured the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of 1998. He lives in upstate New York.

About the Book
The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation’s history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity—the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1—and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation—automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring ’20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza’s riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots—a picture of modern America at the crossroads.

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents is an Alternate Selection of the History Book Club. Publishers Weekly praises 1920 as “absorbing . . . a broad, satisfying political and social history, in the style of Doris Kearns Goodwin." Kirkus recommends 1920 as a “rousing chronicle. . . A hugely fascinating episode in American history, told with insight and great humor, by an author in command of his subject."

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