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SUMMARY:A Discussion with the Author: "The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11"
DESCRIPTION:As the nation pauses to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11\, 2001 Attacks\, join author and historian J. Samuel Walker for a discussion of his book\, The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11\, which offers a unique perspective of the day’s events\, including new details on the four hijackings\, the collapse of the Twin Towers\, and policy decisions made in the Clinton and Bush administrations. \n  \nLimited copies of The Day That Shook America will be available for purchase following the program. J. Samuel Walker will also be available to sign copies of book for guests in attendance.\n  \n \nThis program is presented in partnership with the University Press of Kansas \n  \n\n  \nJ. Samuel Walker is the former historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He’s written numerous titles on the subject of nuclear weaponry and atomic energy\, including The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States (2009)\, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004)\, and Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan (1997). Walker has also published on the history of the September 11\, 2001 terrorist attacks\, including his book The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 (2021)\, which received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2022. Walker holds degrees from the University of Delaware and the University of Maryland. \n  \n\n  \nAbout The Day That Shook America\nOn September 11\, 2001\, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety\, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife\, who worked in downtown Washington\, DC. At the time and ever since\, Walker\, like many of his fellow Americans\, was and remains troubled by questions about the disaster that occurred on 9/11. What were the purposes of the attacks? Why did US intelligence agencies and the Defense Department\, with annual budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars\, fail to protect the country from a small band of terrorists who managed to hijack four airliners and take the lives of nearly three thousand American citizens? What did responsible government agencies and officials know about Al-Qaeda and why did they not do more to head off the threat it posed? What were American policies toward terrorism\, especially under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush\, and why did they fall so far short of defending against a series of attacks? Finally\, was the tragedy of 9/11 preventable? These are the most important questions that The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 tries to answer. \nThe Day That Shook America offers a long perspective and draws on recently opened records to provide an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken by the Clinton and Bush administrations toward terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular. It also delivers arresting new details on the four hijackings and the collapse of the twin towers. J. Samuel Walker covers both the human drama and the public policy dimensions of one of the most important events in all of US history\, and he does so in a way that is both comprehensive and concise.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/a-discussion-with-the-author-the-day-that-shook-america-a-concise-history-of-9-11/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Is the Future of Bipartisanship?
DESCRIPTION:Dole Institute director Audrey Coleman moderates a conversation with Future Caucus President & CEO Layla Zaidane\, and Indiana Future Caucus co-chairs Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn and Rep. Beau Baird about opportunities of bipartisan leadership\, and the work Future Caucus is doing to foster bipartisan work in Congress and state legislatures throughout the United States. \n  \n\n  \n \nThis program is presented in partnership with Future Caucus \n  \n\n  \nLayla Zaidane is President & CEO of Future Caucus\, the largest nonpartisan organization of young lawmakers in the United States. A nationally recognized expert on youth engagement\, Layla was named to the TIME100 NEXT list\, and was a recipient of the McNulty Prize in 2025. Before joining Future Caucus\, she served as the Managing Director for Generation Progress\, where she led integrated communications\, policy\, and advocacy efforts around solutions to the challenges facing today’s youth\, and spearheaded innovative new global youth engagement efforts. In 2014\, she helped launch and manage the It’s On Us campaign in partnership with the White House\, and in 2013\, launched the Higher Ed\, Not Debt campaign – a coalition of dozens of organizations working to make higher education accessible and affordable for all. Layla graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds a BSFS in international politics. She’s currently a Fellow of the Civil Society Fellowship\, and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. \nState Representative Beau Baird (R-IN) represents House District 44\, serving all of Putnam County and portions of Montgomery County. He is Chair of the Indiana House Environmental Affairs Committee\, serves on the House Agriculture and Rural Development Committee and the House Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee\, and is the Republican Co-Chair of the Indiana Future Caucus. A lifelong resident of Putnam County\, Baird also serves as Chairman of the Putnam County Republican Party. Outside the legislature\, he owns and operates Baird Ranch\, one of Indiana’s largest American Quarter Horse breeding operations\, manages his family’s agricultural and commercial real estate interests\, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Quarter Horse Association and Independent Colleges of Indiana. Baird earned his bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and completed the IMM Global Executive MBA through Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business. His graduate studies have also included advanced work in finance at Harvard University. \nState Representative Victoria Garcia Wilburn (D-IN) is a member of the Indiana House of Representatives\, and serves as the Democratic co-chair of the Indiana Future Caucus. In the State House of Representatives\, she serves as the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee\, and as a member of the Employment\, Labor and Pensions and Public Health committees. Before entering the legislature in 2022\, she served as a clinician\, health researcher\, and public health advocate. She currently serves as an associate professor at Indiana University’s Indianapolis campus. Rep. Garcia Wilburn holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Boston University\, and a master’s and a doctorate of health science from the University of Indianapolis. 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/what-is-the-future-of-bipartisanship/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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