5/20/18

BOOK CLUB WILL MEET- JULY 1ST @ TOM HOUSE

   PRESENTS 
 FETISHBOOK CLUB 
 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

  THIS MONTH'S SELECTION
WAR ON PEACE
BY RONAN FARROW

 JULY 1ST 2018
 1PM 
 $10 COVER  
  TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
  1421 LAVETA TERRACE   
ECHO PARK CA 90026 
WAR ON PEACE
RONAN FARROW
A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership,
 by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

  US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, 
forever changing America’splace in the world. 
Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out 
after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America’s deals and protect its 
citizens around the world are walking out in droves.
 Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. 
We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. 

 In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC,
 to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth—
Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them—
acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most 
consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. 

Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers—
including every living former secretary of state
 from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson—
War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession.
 Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, 
shortsightedness, and outright malice—
but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war.

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