An Evening with Annie Jacobsen in conversation with Pamela Berkowsky
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Co-presented with our partners at the World Affairs Council and the University of Miami's Hanley Democracy Center.
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2 Guests + 1 Book ticket ($33 + tax) includes admission for TWO (2) guests and ONE (1) copy of the book upon entry.
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About The Book
A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario. It would only be a matter of days from such a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence.
The fallout: mass death, total societal breakdown, widespread insurrection, anarchy, and a plague-ravaged wasteland that no longer resembles modern civilization. In other words, dystopia.
Following the gripping narrative style that launched Nuclear War to the New York Times bestseller list, Jacobsen looks deeply at a situation that is in some ways the opposite of a nuclear bomb: there is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.
This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.
About The Author
Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Nuclear War, Area 51, and Operation Paperclip, the Pulitzer Prize–finalist in history The Pentagon’s Brain, First Platoon, and other books. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. Jacobsen’s books have been named Best of the Year and Most Anticipated by outlets including The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Boston Globe. Coverage has ranged from the New York Times to Joe Rogan’s podcast.
About The Moderator
Pamela Berkowsky is a strategist, connector, and national security professional. She is President of Blue Sapphire Strategies, a Miami-based policy, public affairs and business consultancy and Co-founder of two local non-profits -- the South Florida Defense Alliance and South Florida Women in Defense. Much of her current work focuses on growing our local defense technology and innovation ecosystem and matters at the intersection of climate, resilience, and national security.
Ms. Berkowsky is a former senior Pentagon official with federal government tenure spanning three Presidential Administrations. Her distinguished DOD career, which included tours on the Joint Staff, in the Office of Vice President Al Gore, and with the Department of the Navy, culminated with a political appointment by President Clinton to serve as Assistant Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. While advising the Secretary on significant policy and personnel matters, she was simultaneously appointed as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Civil Support, the Pentagon’s pre-9/11 liaison to the National Security Council and federal, state and local authorities on domestic terrorism preparedness, consequence management and homeland defense issues.
She has testified before Congress on homeland security matters, served as Deputy and Chief of Staff to the Governor of the US Virgin Islands, taught a popular national security seminar at the University of the Virgin Islands, and has appeared as a national security expert on cable and network television. She is the co-author, along with former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig, of a seminal piece on bioterrorism which was published 29 years ago in the influential Journal of the American Medical Association.
Earning a Master’s Degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a Bachelor’s Degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Ms. Berkowsky also studied diplomacy in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Fulbright Scholar. She is the recipient of the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (Bronze Palm), the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award, and the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award.
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