Author event with Michael Lewis
About this Event
Parnassus Books and Montgomery Bell Academy are thrilled to present an evening with Michael Lewis, in conversation with Ann Patchett, to celebrate Michael's new book, Blockers, Rebels in the Deep State.
This ticketed event will begin at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, October 13th, at Paschall Theatre, on the Montgomery Bell Academy Campus. Doors will open at 5:30.
Tickets:
Tickets are $34.00 and include one general admission seat and one signed copy of Blockers. All tickets are general admission. Books will be pre-signed.
Please note there will NOT be a signing line for personalizations, photos, or books from home following this event.
Parking:
Parking is free on the MBA campus. There is a garage located at 205 South Wilson Boulevard (East side of MBA's campus.) You may also park in the Vine Street Church parking lot or in any of the surface lots on campus. We always encourage ride share as parking can be difficult for large events.
About the Book:
Blockers. It wasn't a compliment. In the new Washington, it was the worst thing you could be--especially if you worked in the federal government and wanted to keep your job. A Blocker was a holdover, an impediment, someone who didn't get the message--and, most of all, someone who didn't belong.
Michael Lewis found six of them.
Blockers is the story of people who believed they had a calling, who were convinced they were doing something the country couldn't do without, and then discovered they were no longer wanted. One kept Americans' most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands and another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from destroying suburban neighborhoods, another helped uncover the mysteries of cystic fibrosis.
There was also a security guard.
It should come as no surprise that the writer who made subprime mortgages gripping (The Big Short) and who turned baseball statistics into poetry (Moneyball) could transform the first two years of the second Trump administration into a thriller about federal employees. But he does.
And he does something else. He puts before us a clear question: If these public servants can't survive in government today, then what does that say about us?
About the author:
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk, and Who Is Government. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.
Where is it happening?
USD 38.12
