Charleston Library Society Speaker Series presents Ron Powers

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Charleston Library Society Speaker Series presents Ron Powers

December 4, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm UTC+0

$10 – $15

Join us as we host, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winner, Ron Powers as he presents Locking Away Our Mentally Ill–It’s a Crime while discussing his most recent book, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers.

Ron Powers is an award winning critic, journalist, writer, and novelist. While working at the Chicago Sun-Times, he became the first television critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and a little over a decade later he won an Emmy for his commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. Some of Powers’ works include the 2000 #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, Mark Twain: A Life, and most recently, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America, which chronicles his sons’ schizophrenia, and the family’s experience of dealing with the American mental health system. Powers’ lecture, Locking Away Our Mentally Ill–It’s a Crime, will cover topics found his recent book.

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Charleston Library Society Speaker Series presents Ron Powers

Details

Date:
December 4, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm UTC+0
Cost:
$10 – $15
Website:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3090055

Organizer

Charleston Library Society
Phone
843-723-9912
Email
Info@charlestonlibrarysociety.org

Venue

Charleston Library Society
164 King Street
Charleston, 29424 United States
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Phone
843.722.2706
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