I will be interviewing Rick "Nixonland" Perlstein and Tom "Secret Lives of Citizens" Geoghegan, about the future of media and politics, at an event at the University of Chicago at 7pm on May 26th. Details here. This marks just about the end of my recent intense immersion in Hyde Park/U Chicago activities. Nice neighborhoods! Impressive students! See you on Wednesday night.
(And if I were in DC this evening, I would be giving birthday greetings on their respective big birthdays to my son Tad and my friend David I.)
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James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the new book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which has been a New York Times best-seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary.