Co-sponsor New Author

Program Series

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The Book Stall is teaming up with the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum in Chicago to sponsor a series of author programs featuring prominent writers discussing their books and areas of expertise.

Located in the historic Tribune Tower at 445 North Michigan Avenue, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum is the nation’s first museum dedicated to freedom and the First Amendment.

Attendance is free.  Reservations are requested (either online at freedommuseum.us or by calling 312 222-7871).

Please join us for these events:


Thursday, March 20 , 6 – 7:30 p.m.

RICHARD EPSTEIN, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses Supreme Neglect:  How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property, a succinct look at property rights in America. Professor Epstein, the nation’s preeminent authority on the subject, examines all aspects of private property—from real estate to air rights to intellectual property.


Thursday, April 10, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent, speaks about her book, Supreme Conflict:  The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, a New York Times  bestseller.  Ms. Greenburg will be joined by James Warren, deputy managing editor of The Chicago Tribuneto discuss Supreme Court rulings and the titanic battle over the composition and direction of the Court by political leaders.


Thursday, May 1, 6-7:30 p.m.

ANTHONY LEWIS, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times op-ed columnist for more than 30 years, discusses his latest book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate:  A Biography of the First Amendment, tracing the origins of the First Amendment and making a case for the importance of freedom of expression, even speech we “hate.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

RICHARD EPSTEIN

 


   

JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG

 


    

ANTHONY LEWIS

 

 

 

 

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