The Leroy V. Good Library (Brighton campus) will be hosting a lecture next Monday, April 7, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. David Cay Johnston will be speaking on his latest book “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill).” Please note that the lecture will be held in the Warshof Conference Center, Monroe B.
David Cay Johnston has been an investigative journalist with the New York Times since 1995. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer three other times since 2000. He has also worked at the Los Angeles Times, for which he was the first reporter to expose the brutality and inefficiency of the Los Angeles Police Department. While at the Philadelphia Inquirer, he broke the story that Donald Trump had a negative net worth.
Besides his journalistic experience, Mr. Johnston is a prolific author. In “Free Lunch” he shows how government policy leaves college graduates drowning in debt while lenders make triple the profits of commercial banks. His last best-selling book, “Perfectly Legal,” is used as a text in universities from Harvard to the University of Southern California, and Congress has enacted five laws to address the abuses uncovered in the book. The work also prompted the only major tax policy change by President Bush, who dropped a stealth plan to give a quarter-trillion-dollar tax cut to the richest Americans.
Please join us for this fascinating lecture by one of journalism’s preeminent members.
If you have any questions, please contact Lori Annesi, Reference/Special Collections Librarian ("mailto:lannesi@monroecc.edu").
Lori Annesi
Library
04/03/2008 |