SPEAKER PUBLICATIONS

Speaker Reading List

SeptemberBernat Rosner and Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach
"An uncommon friendship: from opposite sides of the Holocaust (2001)"

The Honorable John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism
“Our Current State of Security and the Progress Achieved Against Global Terrorism” 

Internet resource by the speaker:
"Remarks of John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, on Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise," [White House Press Release] (29 June 2011)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Deadly embrace : Pakistan, America, and the future of the global jihad / Bruce Riedel. (2011)
God's century : resurgent religion and global politics / Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah. (2011)
Chasing phantoms : reality, imagination, & homeland security since 9/11 / Michael Barkun. (2011)

Dennis P. Lockhart, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
“The Economic Situation and Financial Markets”

Online address by the speaker:
"Two Views of the Economy, " [speech given at Third Annual Rocky Mountain Economic Summit, Jackson Hole, Wyo.] (29 July, 2011).

Article by the speaker to read online with a Jacksonville Public Library card number, or request a copy via e-mail from inform@coj.net:
"Navigating around financial turbulence," Partners in Community and Economic Development (Winter 2007).

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
What's next? : unconventional wisdom on the future of the world economy / edited by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale. (2011)
The next convergence : the future of economic growth in a multispeed world / Michael Spence. (2011)

October

A. Paul Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Jaxport
“JAXPORT’s Ties to the Economic Future of the First Coast Community”

Related reading available online:
Maintaining Jacksonville's competitive advantage: a public policy discussion / Mayor John Peyton. (June 2011)
Note: A paper copy of this document is available for review in the Main Library's Florida Collection.

Fouad Ajami, Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University and co-chairman of Hoover's Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
“The Arab Spring: Outlook for The Middle East”

Books by the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
The foreigner's gift : the Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq / Fouad Ajami. (2006)
Does the world hate the United States? / Andrea C. Nakaya, book editor. -- A fear of modernism results in anti-Americanism / Fouad Ajami. (2005)
How did this happen? : terrorism and the new war / edited by James F. Hoge and Gideon Rose. -- The uneasy imperium : Pax Americana in the Middle East / Fouad Ajami. (2001)
The dream palace of the Arabs : a generation's odyssey / Fouad Ajami. (1998)
Beirut : city of regrets / photographs by Eli Reed ; text by Fouad Ajami. (1988)
The vanished Imam : Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon / Fouad Ajami. (1986) 

Selected articles by the speaker to read online with a Jacksonville Public Library card number, or request copies via e-mail from inform@coj.net:
"Demise of the Dictators ," Newsweek (February 14, 2011)
"Pity the Christian Arabs," Newsweek International (January 24, 2011)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Conversations with terrorists : Middle East leaders on politics, violence, and empire / Reese Erlich ; foreword by Robert Baer ; afterword by Noam Chomsky. (2010)
The Arab lobby : the invisible alliance that undermines America's interests in the Middle East / by Mitchell Bard. (2010)
What's really wrong with the Middle East / Brian Whitaker. (2009)
NovemberM. Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc.
“The Future of U.S. Manufacturing”

Internet resources featuring the speaker:
Videoclips and transcripts of various appearances, 2003-2011

Article by the speaker to read online with a Jacksonville Public Library card number, or request a copy via e-mail from inform@coj.net:
"CEOs can ease strife," Chief Executive (U.S.) (December 2003)

Selected related reading available online:
The impact of exporting on the stability of U.S. manufacturing industries / by David Riker and Brandon Thurner, Office of Competition and Economic Analysis. (2011)
A framework for revitalizing American manufacturing / Executive Office of the President. (2009)

Norman J. Ornstein, Co-director, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
“Looking Ahead to the 2012 Elections” 

Online resources by the speaker:
American Enterprise Institute Articles and Commentary (2011 and earlier)

Books by or featuring the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Political campaigns / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor.-- (Opposing Viewpoints) -- Campaign finance reform is working / Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. (2010)
The presidential election process / Tom Lansford, book editor. -- (Opposing Viewpoints) -- Public election financing should be expanded / Norman J. Ornstein. (2008)
The broken branch : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track / Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein. (2006)
The George W. Bush presidency : an early assessment / edited by Fred I. Greenstein. -- President Bush: legislative strategist / John C. Fortier and Norman J. Ornstein (2003)
After the people vote : a guide to the electoral college / edited by Walter Berns ; with essays by Norman J. Ornstein and Martin Diamond. (1992)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library: 
Our patchwork nation : the surprising truth about the "real" America / Dante Chinni and James Gimpel. (2010)
The democracy index : why our election system is failing and how to fix it / Heather K. Gerken. (2009)
Grand illusion : the myth of voter choice in a two-party tyranny / Theresa Amato. (2009)
JanuaryDavid Ignatius, National Defense Analyst, Washington Post Columnist and Novelist“How Secure Is Our National Security: Where Are The Threats?”

Books and audiobooks by the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
NONFICTION
America and the world : conversations on the future of American foreign policy / Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft ; moderated by David Ignatius. (2008) 

FICTION
Bloodmoney : a novel of espionage / David Ignatius. (2011)
The increment : a novel / David Ignatius. (2009)
The increment [downloadable OverDrive WMA audiobook] : a novel / David Ignatius. (2009)
Body of lies : a novel / David Ignatius. (2007)
Body of lies [unabridged audiobook on CD] : a novel / David Ignatius. (2007)
The sun king : a novel / David Ignatius. (1999)
A firing offense / David Ignatius. (1997)
Siro/ David Ignatius. (1991)

Article by the speaker to read online:
"The double mirror," Time. 177.21 (May 23, 2011)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Necessary secrets : national security, the media, and the rule of law / Gabriel Schoenfeld. (2010)
The watchers : the rise of America's surveillance state / Shane Harris. (2010)
Arsenal of democracy : the politics of national security--from World War II to the War on Teorism / Julian E. Zelizer. (2009) 
 

February

Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
“China: An Economic Outlook” and “The China Challenge”Books and audiobooks by the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Half the sky: turning opression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (2009)
Half the sky [downloadable Adobe eBook] : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (2009)
Half the sky [unabridged audiobook on CD] : turning opression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (2009)
Thunder from the East : portrait of a rising Asia / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (2001)
Thunder from the East : portrait of the rising Asia / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2001)
China wakes : the struggle for the soul of a rising power / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. (1994)
Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Tide players : the movers and shakers of a rising China / Jianying Zha. (2011)
On China / Henry Kissinger. (2011)
China : getting rich first : a modern social history / Duncan Hewitt. (2008)

MarchFrank Trotter, President of EverBank Direct "Geopolitical Events & Sovereign Debt: Ideas to Cover the Risk”

Selected related resources available from Jacksonville Public Library:
America's ticking bankruptcy bomb : how the looming debt crisis threatens the American dream-- and how we can turn the tide before it's too late / Peter Ferrara. (2011)
The ten trillion dollar gamble : the coming deficit debacle and how to invest now / Russ Koesterich. (2011)
Frontline : Ten trillion and counting [OverDrive downloadable videorecording]/ a production of WGBH-TV Boston. (2010)
 

Michael Mandelbaum, Author and the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies“That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back”Books by the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back / Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. (2011)
Democracy's good name : the rise and risks of the world's most poular form of government / Michael Mandelbaum. (2007)
The case for Goliath : how America acts as the world's government in the twenty-first century / Michael Mandelbaum. (2005)
The meaning of sports : why Americans watch baseball, football, and basketball, and what they see when they do / Michael Mandelbaum. (1998)
The global rivals / Seweryn Bialer and Michael Mandelbaum. (1988)
Reagan and Gorbachev / Michael Mandelbaum and Strobe Talbott (1987)
The nuclear question : the United States and nuclear weapons, 1946-1976 / Michael Mandelbaum. (1979)

Article by the speaker to read online:
"Shrinking the Middle East," Time (August 23, 2010)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
The post-American world : release 2.0 / Fareed Zakaria. (2011)
The next decade : where we've been -- and where we're going / George Friedman. (2011)

AprilMichael J. Sandel, Harvard Professor and Author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do?
“How to Think About Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in a Global Age” 

Books by the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Justice : what's the right thing to do? / Michael J. Sandel. (2009)
Justice [downloadable OverDrive WMA Audiobook] : what's the right thing to do? / Michael J. Sandel. (2009)
Stem cells/ Jacqueline Langwith, book editor. -- (Opposing Viewpoints) -- Therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells is not immoral / Michael J. Sandel. (2007)
The case against perfection : ethics in the age of genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel. (2007)
Public philosophy : essays on morality in politics / Michael J. Sandel. (2005)

DVD featuring the speaker available from Jacksonville Public Library:
Justice [videorecording] : what's the right thing to do? / produced by WGBH Boston in association with Harvard University ; producer, Loen Kelley. (2009)

Selected related reading available from Jacksonville Public Library:
The moral landscape : how science can determine human values / Sam Harris. (2010)
The idea of justice / Amartya Sen. (2009)
Global values 101 : a short course / edited by Kate Holbrook ... [et al.]. (2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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