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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Television
media expert
BARRY JAGODA
will
discuss his critically acclaimed book
JOURNEYS WITH
JIMMY CARTER
and Other Adventures in Media
Saturday, June 11, 7PM
In view of the
forthcoming 2022 mid-term elections, Barry Jagoda’s insight and analyses of
elections and the role of traditional and new media are particularly pertinent.
Former Presidential Assistant to Jimmy Carter, Emmy-winning producer for CBS
coverage of the first man on the moon and the Watergate scandal, public affairs
expert Barry Jagoda writes of his dramatic roots and rise from Texas to New
York City and Washington DC, becoming a noted authority on the powerful use of
new and legacy media. According to renowned historian Theodore H. White, the
“secret weapon” for Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign was “understanding the
process of television news coverage, essential for winning the White House
[and] Barry Jagoda brought that dimension to the Carter campaign.”
Barry
Jagoda was television advisor to
Governor Jimmy Carter and White House Special Assistant to the President. He
was also an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer at NBC News and CBS News,
including working with Walter Cronkite as producer for the Apollo 11 moon landing
and for Watergate coverage. Jagoda is an authority on the transition from
traditional media to the digital world that now challenges candidates and
elected officials. Barry Jagoda earned a BA in American studies at the
University of Texas, Austin, and an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism
at Columbia University. With Texas roots, and after many years in New York and
Washington DC, Jagoda now lives in La Jolla and continues to be a campaign
media advisor and media publicist for high technology companies. He is also a
contributing writer for TimesofSanDiego.com.
“Heartfelt,
beautifully written memoir about the fast
lane of American journalism and politics. Highly recommended.” -- Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and
Professor of History, Rice University
“Barry
Jagoda’s memoir is timely: in the course of relating his insider’s experiences
working in the White House of Jimmy Carter, it vividly reminds us that a
position of high office does not have to preclude competence and principled
behavior.”-- Elizabeth
Blackburn, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; President
Emerita, Salk Institute
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Noted film
historian
Noah Isenberg
will discuss his critically
acclaimed book
BILLY
WILDER
ON ASSIGNMENT:
Dispatches from Weimar
Berlin
and Interwar Vienna
Saturday,
August 13, 7PM
 Before
Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of such iconic films like Sunset
Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter,
first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Billy Wilder on Assignment
brings together more than fifty articles, translated into English for the first
time, that Wilder (then known as “Billie”) published in magazines and
newspapers between September 1925 and November 1930. From a humorous account of
Wilder’s stint as a hired dancing companion in a posh Berlin hotel and his
dispatches from the international film scene to his astute profiles of writers,
performers, and political figures, the collection offers fresh insights into
the creative mind of one of Hollywood’s most revered writer-directors. Wilder’s
early writings—a heady mix of cultural essays, interviews, and reviews—contain
the same sparkling wit and intelligence as his later Hollywood screenplays,
while also casting light into the dark corners of Vienna and Berlin between the
wars. Wilder covered everything: big-city sensations, jazz performances, film
and theater openings, dance, photography, and all manner of mass entertainment.
Noah Isenberg is the George Christian Centennial
Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of
Texas. He was formerly Professor of Culture and Media at the New School in New
York. His books include We’ll Always
Have ‘Casablanca’: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved
Movie; Edgar G. Ulmer: A
Filmmaker at the Margins; Detour, a
book-length study of Ulmer’s acclaimed low-budget film noir; and, as editor, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to
Classic Films of the Era. His
introduction to Vicki Baum’s bestselling novel of 1929, Grand Hotel, appeared with the
book’s reissue by the New York Review of Books Classics in 2016. His current
projects include a book on Billy
Wilder’s Some Like It Hot for Norton and a short interpretive
biography of Wilder for the Yale Jewish Lives series.
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books
Christopher Hitchens
Oscar-Winning Actor Sean Penn
Oscar-Winning Director Oliver Stone
Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert
Francoise Gilot
Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot
at the original store
Michael McClure
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences
Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle
Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen
Quincy Troupe
Iris Chang
Gerry Spence
Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia
Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.
N. Parthasarathi,
Indian Consul General, San Francisco; and Nirupama Rao, Ambassador of India to the U.S.
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