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May the 4th - 2019 Annual Awards Dinner w/ Nancy MacLean

Sat 4 May 2019
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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You are invited to Fix Democracy First's 2019 ANNUAL DINNER & Fundraiser with NANCY MACLEAN, author of "Democracy in Chains" WHEN: Saturday, May the 4th ~ 5-9 pm WHERE: Bloedel Hall at Saint Marks 1245 10th Ave E, SEATTLE 98102 ~ 2019 Fix Democracy First Awardees ~ Democracy Organization of the Year - OneAmerica Democracy Elected Official of the Year - Julie Wise , King County Elections Director Democracy Volunteer of the Year - Lisa Ayrault, FairVote Washington Chair Tickets: $90 each or $650 for a table of eight - All ticket prices include a copy of NANCY MACLEAN'S BOOK, "Democracy in Chains." Keynote Speaker: NANCY MACLEAN NANCY MACLEAN IS THE WILLIAM H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, and the award-winning author of several books, including Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan; Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace; The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents; and Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present. She also served the editor of Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism. Her most recent book, about which she will speak, is "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America." Booklist called it perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government. The Guardian said: Its the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century. The Nation magazine named it the Most Valuable Book of the year.
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