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First Tuesday reading - June 3, 2008 - Steve Fraser & Josh O Mark Crispin Miller welcomes Steve Fraser, author of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (Yale University Press) and Josh Ozersky, author of The Hamburger: A History (Yale University Press) to McNally Robinson Bookstore for this month's First Tuesday reading! This monthly series hosted by author and activist Mark Crispin Miller features authors whose books tackle political and public issues from a stance outside the mainstream. Miller edits Yale's Icons of America series: short works on the image of America through the lens of a single iconic individual, event, object, or cultural phenomenon. Tonight he talks with series contributors Josh Ozersky, who unfolds the surprising significance of the hamburger as an American icon, and Steve Fraser, who recounts the colorful history of America's complicated relationship with Wall Street.

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First Tuesdays: John (Rick) MacArthur Mark Crispin Miller presents John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of the new book YOU CAN'T BE PRESIDENT: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America.

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George Lakoff speaking at McNally Robinson Lakoff discusses his new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain.

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First Tuesdays: Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog First Tuesdays at McNally Robinson Booksellers: Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog, hosted by Mark Crispin Miller Win McCormack, author of You Dont Know Me: A Citizens Guide to Republican Family Values (Tin House) Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics Basic Books)

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Mark's blog can be accessed at http://markcrispinmiller.com

Please check out Loser Take All (http://tinyurl.com/5psa4x), edited by Mark Crispin Miller, author of the seminal Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform, this explosive collection includes works by a broad range of well-respected election activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., David Moore, Bob Fitrakis, Larissa Alexandrova, Michael Collins, Lance deHaven-Smith, Brad Friedman, David Griscom, James Gundlach, Jean Kaczmarek, Paul Lehto, Bruce O'Dell, Michael Richardson, Steven Rosenfeld, Jonathan Simon and Nancy Tobi.

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Author of Boxed in: The Culture of TV, The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, and, Fooled Again. Miller wrote and performed in "A Patriot Act," an indictment of the movement to subvert the US Constitution and replace American democracy with religious values. DVD now available Most recently, Miller wrote Fooled Again , in which he argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election-it was theft.

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