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Book Launch: RECLAIMING GOTHAM with Juan González, Amy Goodman and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

New York, NY

September 07, 2017 | Thursday | 7:00 pm

The New School

66 W 12th St
New York, NY 10011 ( see map )
Democracy Now!’s Juan González gives a public talk on his new book RECLAIMING GOTHAM: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities, followed by an on-stage conversation with New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, moderated by Amy Goodman.

Juan will sign books after the talk.

The event is co-sponsored by Democracy Now!, The New Press, and The Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism MA Program at The New School for Social Research.

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The event is free and open to the public. Seats available on a first come basis.
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Juan González

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Juan González has been a professional journalist for more than 40 years and was a staff columnist at the New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016. He is a two-time recipient of the George Polk Award for commentary (1998 and 2010) and was inducted into the Deadline Club’s New York Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015. A professor of Journalism and Media...

Amy Goodman

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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award....