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The 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., in late summer of 2024. A selection of programs will be livestreamed online and videos of all programs will be available shortly after the Festival.

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9:30 AM

Event | lectures and symposia

To the Edge of the World: Rethinking Exploration with Amanda Bellows and Hampton Sides
Saturday
August 24, 2024
9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Journey from the frontier to the sea with Amanda Bellows and Hampton Sides as they uncover startling details of explorers confronting the unknown. By profiling 10 explorers’ lives, Bellows’ “The Explorers” revises our understanding of who gets to be called an “explorer.” Sides’ “The Wide Wide Sea” dives into Captain James Cook’s final voyage and its impact on Indigenous people. Moderator: Frederick F. Wherry.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: Adventure, Biography, History, Nature, Nonfiction

10:30 AM

Event | lectures and symposia

Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde, Icons of Resistance: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Tiya Miles
Saturday
August 24, 2024
10:50 am - 11:50 am EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Black women occupy a long intellectual tradition in America—one that’s in part about social justice and defiance of the world as it is. Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde are two of its icons, people with idiosyncrasies and nuance. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (“Survival Is a Promise”) and Tiya Miles (“Night Flyer”) help us complicate portrayals of Lorde and Tubman. Moderated by Martha S. Jones.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: Biography, Black and African American, History, Inspiring and Educational, LGBTQ+, Nonfiction, Social Justice

12:00 PM

Event | lectures and symposia

American History Is Native History, with Ned Blackhawk and Kathleen DuVal
Saturday
August 24, 2024
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) America didn’t begin in 1776. Ned Blackhawk (“The Rediscovery of America”) and Kathleen DuVal (“Native Nations”) address and rectify the erroneous history that casts Native American people as groups without innate sovereignty consistently on the periphery of American history. Moderated by Shelly C. Lowe.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: History, Native American, Nonfiction

1:30 PM

Event | lectures and symposia

Erik Larson on the Hubris of the Men in Power at the Dawn of the Civil War
Saturday
August 24, 2024
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) The Civil War still fascinates us yet the full, human motivations that dragged us into war are a puzzle that remains incomplete. Join Erik Larson, author of “The Demon of Unrest,” who discusses the tragic miscalculations made by key men in power who ultimately led America to the brink. Moderated by David M. Rubenstein.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults Genres: History, Nonfiction

2:30 PM

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Words at War: Misinformation Then and Now with Annalee Newitz and Peter Pomerantsev
Saturday
August 24, 2024
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) We know that disinformation is dangerous but did you also know it’s a weapon of war? Annalee Newitz (“Stories Are Weapons”) and Peter Pomerantsev (“How to Win an Information War”) discuss the ways tools like psychological operations and coercive storytelling that were once deployed against foreign adversaries affect our current geopolitical climate and shape our present-day culture wars. Moderated by Roswell Encina.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: Biography, Democracy, History, Memoir, Nonfiction

4:00 PM

Event | lectures and symposia

America's Largest and Least Understood Minority: Marie Arana on "LatinoLand"
Saturday
August 24, 2024
4:10 pm - 4:55 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Journalist and writer Marie Arana has taken on a nearly impossible task in “LatinoLand”: write an overview of Latino America. Latino Americans make up nearly 20% of the American population but they are not a monolith or a single group. Join us as Arana talks about her work interviewing and depicting Latino Americans, in conversation with María Peña.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults Genres: Hispanic, History, Nonfiction

5:30 PM

Event | lectures and symposia

Max Boot Talks About His New Biography of Ronald Reagan
Saturday
August 24, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) Washington Post columnist and biographer Max Boot’s project for the past decade has been an effort to understand the contradictions of Ronald Reagan’s personality and life. “Reagan: His Life and Legend” is the result, a biography that draws on many new interviews with those who knew Reagan and on thousands of recently released documents. Boot appears in conversation with David M. Rubenstein.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults Genres: Biography, Democracy, Nonfiction

6:30 PM

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Words Matter: Politicians on the Page with Jeffrey Rosen and Carlos Lozada
Saturday
August 24, 2024
6:50 pm - 7:50 pm EDT East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building) What our leaders wrote and read may be more revealing than they know, according to these new nonfiction books. Carlos Lozada’s “The Washington Book” makes a case for the oft-derided modern political memoir, and Jeffrey Rosen’s “The Pursuit of Happiness” examines how classical philosophy influenced the founders and shaped the nation’s values. Moderated by Marianna Sotomayor. Note: Book signing before event.
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org .
Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults, Panels Genres: Democracy, History, Nonfiction

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