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Daniel R. Garodnick — Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History

Posted on April 12th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
You can order a copy of Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History with an autographed bookplate exclusive... Read more

Thomas Dyja — New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

Posted on March 11th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by acclaimed author Thomas Dyja. In this monumental urban history, Dyja deliv... Read more

Jonathan Cohn — The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Posted on February 22nd, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL START TIME: Live Zoom program begins at 4 PM EST Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade... Read more

Eleanor: Poems

Posted on February 19th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a live Zoom discussion of Eleanor: Poems by award-winning poet Gray Jacobik. In this rich and inventive new collection, Jacobik presents a series of poems that powerfully and imaginati... Read more

Leandra Ruth Zarnow — Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug

Posted on February 19th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President, together with Roosevelt House, the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute (BALI), and the Hunter College Department of Wom... Read more

Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives on Returning Home

Posted on January 25th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
You can order a copy of Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning Home with at a specially discounted price (20% off) exclusively from Shakespear... Read more

FDR’s Black Cabinet in Retrospect: A Conversation with Descendants of Roosevelt’s African American Advisors

Posted on January 25th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
Roosevelt House is proud to present a special live Zoom discussion about the advisory group of African American federal officials who served during the Roosevelt administration—unofficially known as the Black Cabinet. This follows the Roosevelt Ho... Read more
My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19

Dr. William A. Haseltine — My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19

Posted on January 7th, 2021 · Posted in Book Discussions, COVID 19, Public Programs
You can order a copy of My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19 with an autographed bookplate exclusively from Shake... Read more

A Television Broadcast of The Daughters of Yalta

Posted on December 3rd, 2020 · Posted in Book Discussions, Roosevelt House General News

Please tune in this weekend to C-SPAN2 for a television broadcast of A Roosevelt House Presentation: Catherine Grace Katz In Conversation with Amanda Foreman The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills,…  

John A. Riggs — High Tension: FDR’s Battle to Power America

Posted on December 1st, 2020 · Posted in Book Discussions, Public Programs
You can order a copy of High Tension: FDR's Battle to Power America with an autographed bookplate exclusively from Shakes... Read more