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History Book Festival to host online talk with Zachary Carter Aug. 20

August 12, 2020

Zachary D. Carter will join a live online session at 5 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, to discuss his critically acclaimed biography, “The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes,” presented by the History Book Festival. 

John Maynard Keynes was a noted British economist and the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation. A moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes reinvented enlightenment liberalism to meet the harrowing crises of his time. 

In the United States, his ideas became the foundation of a burgeoning economics profession, but they also became a flash point in the broader political struggle of the Cold War, as Keynesian acolytes faced off against conservatives in an intellectual battle for the future of the country – and the world.

Zachary D. Carter is a senior reporter at HuffPost, covering economic policy and American politics. 

Laurie S. Fulton will interview Carter during the event. She served as U.S. ambassador to Denmark from July 2009 to February 2013 and is co-chair of the Ambassadors Circle of the National Democratic Institute, a nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide. 

This Zoom event is free but registration is required; go to historybookfestival.org and click on 2020 Events. The 2020 Virtual History Book Festival is presented in cooperation with the Lewes Public Library and sponsored by Delaware Humanities and the Lee Ann Wilkinson Group.

Copies of “The Price of Peace” with signed archival bookplates are available from the festival’s official bookseller, Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, as well as at biblion in Lewes. The festival encourages readers to support local independent bookstores. Copies also may be borrowed from the Lewes Public Library; call 302-645-2733 or email lewes.library@gmail.com to arrange for curbside pickup.

The 2020 Virtual History Book Festival: Bring History Home will feature free weekly discussions over the next several months. For the most up-to-date information on coming events, visit www.historybookfestival.org.

 

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