Tattered Cover presents... Past, Present, Future History, Politics, & Current Events September 2017

Active Minds Lecture: Opera as Popular Music Tuesday, September 12, 12:30 pm, Colfax Avenue Even though opera began as courtly entertainment, it became one of the most popular music styles in the 18th and 19th centuries. We'll look at the development and public reception of opera from Baroque era superstars like Farinelli to the commercial opera industry in Italy and France in the 19th century (Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi).

Ben Blum Wednesday, September 13, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove Author Ben Blum will discuss and sign his memoir  Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime  ($28.95 Doubleday Books), an intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent story about an armed robbery that haunted a family for years, and Blum's journey to understand what happened.

Ed Darack Thursday, September 21, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove Ed Darack is a writer and photographer who has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan numerous times to embed with infantry and aviation units at the front lines of modern war. Darack will discuss and sign  The Final Mission of Extortion 17: Special Ops, Helicopter Support, Seal Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the U.S. War in Afghanistan   ($24.95 Smithsonian Books).

Active Minds Lecture: Somalia Tuesday, September 26, 5:00 pm, Colfax Avenue Somalia's history is a story of Colonialism yielding to authoritarianism dissolving into anarchy. Chaos has reigned since the early 1990's with rampant wars between rival clans, with no functional government in charge. Severe famine prompted the United Nations and the U.S. to intervene in the 1990's with decidedly mixed results. Lately, the Islamist extremist group Shabab has added another challenge to the mix. Join Active Minds as we examine Somalia's troubled path and where it may be leading.

Philip Jett Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove Author Phillip Jett will discuss and sign  The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder that Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty  ($27.99 St. Martin's Press). This is the chilling true account of the Coors family's gilded American dream that turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong.

Doug Stanton Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue Doug Stanton, the  New York Times  bestselling author of  In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors   and  Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan , will present and sign his powerful work of literary military history  The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War   ($30.00 Scribner).

Amy Goldstein Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm, Historic Lodo Washington Post  reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein will discuss and sign  Janesville: An American Story  ($27.00 Simon & Schuster). Goldstein spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin after the nation's oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008.

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