previous events

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  Mar 16, 2012

  6:30pm

  The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

  How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler takes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our …

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  How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler takes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives when he discusses his book at The Cooper Union –The Rose Auditorium on Friday, March 16 at 6:30 PM.
  
  Former New York Times correspondent, David K Shipler won the Pulitzer Prize for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. He also wrote the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America.
  
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• Friday, February 10

  6:30pm

  Author's Talk with Louis Hyman

  In BORROW: The American Way of Debt—How Personal Credit Created the American Middle Class and Almost Bankrupted the Nation, economist Louis Hyman delivers an accessible and informed history on the rise of personal borrowing in the United States, demonstrating that today’s problems are not as new…

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  In BORROW: The American Way of Debt—How Personal Credit Created the American Middle Class and Almost Bankrupted the Nation, economist Louis Hyman delivers an accessible and informed history on the rise of personal borrowing in the United States, demonstrating that today’s problems are not as new as we think. Hyman describes the evolution of personal loans, finding that our borrowing patterns are similar to our grandparents, but higher basic expenses, stagnating wages and increased economic competition from abroad have made it harder to repay our debts.

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