A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes, but these three authors come to the festival with shoes on and laces firmly tied. Each has a true story about lies and liars ... disinformation, misinformation, and the heroes who had the courage to push back.
| Fast Passes: | This event has free Fast Passes. Fast Passes are not available yet. |
| Where: | Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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| Genres: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science, History / Biography |
| Moderator: | David Bodney |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of C-SPAN / BookTV |
Renée DiResta is a social media researcher who studies adversarial abuse online, ranging from state actors running influence operations, to scammers, spammers and issues related to child safety....
Jack Fairweather is the author of the Costa Book Award-winner "The Volunteer," an international bestseller that’s been hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He served as a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph, where he was the paper’s Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief....
Clay Risen is a reporter at The New York Times, a member of the Society of American Historians, and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book is "Red Scare." He also wrote three previous works on American history, including "The Crowded Hour," a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History, "The Bill of the Century," a finalist for a 2014 NAACP Image Award, and "A Nation on Fire....
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