Town Hall Center for Civic Life presents:
ERIC ALTERMAN: 'WHY WE'RE LIBERALS'
FRIDAY, MARCH 28 AT 7:30 PM

"Liberal" has become a dirty word in American political discourse of late, yet public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Americans hold liberal views on everything from health care to foreign policy. Eric Alterman, a journalist and author well-known for his political weblog Altercation, examines liberalism's development and seeks to restore to its rightful honored place in our country's political life in Why We're Liberals. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company.
Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street.

In his extensively documented counterattack on right-wing spin and misinformation, Alterman disposes of such canards as "Liberals Hate God" and "Liberals Are Soft On Terrorism," reclaiming liberalism from the definitions foisted upon it by the right and repeated everywhere else. Alterman aims to bring clarity and perspective to what he believes has often been a one-sided debate for nothing less than the heart and soul of America.

Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also 'The Liberal Media' columnist for The Nation and a fellow of the Nation Institute, a senior fellow and Altercation web blogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC; a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the 'Think Again' column; a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York; and a history consultant to HBO Films. Alterman is the author of seven books, including the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America; When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy , which won the 1992 George Orwell Award; It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen , which won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award; and Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy.

Termed "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today" in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of "the smartest and funniest political journal out there," in The San Francisco Chronicle, Alterman is frequent lecturer and contributor to numerous publications in the US, Europe and Latin America. In recent years, he has also been a columnist for Worth, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). A former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at NYU and Columbia, Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in US History from Stanford.