Washington Babylon — October 3, 2008, 11:41 am
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For readers in D.C., I’ll be at Politics and Prose Bookstore this Sunday to discuss and take questions on Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship. The event starts at 1 p.m.; the bookstore is located at 5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
“A nimble contribution to the literature on the maneuvers of high-priced and impactful wheelers and dealers in the nation’s capital,” the New York Observer said in a review yesterday. “Silverstein’s expose has some of the fun of an Elmore Leonard novel.”
More from Ken Silverstein:
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Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:
A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.
A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
Winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
