January - April 2012 Classes
“I Think We Have To Blow The Place Up”*
*This is what Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) said in 2010 concerning Congress. He was overstating the new reality: that business as usual in American politics is a prescription for national decline.
1 session Tuesday 1:00PM - 3:00 January 24
Location: Patton Building, Room 150, BRCC Tuition: $20
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In this class, presenter LeRoy Goldman will review the new book by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used To Be Us, which chronicles how America has mouse-trapped itself and what it can do to restore its greatness.
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Mr. Goldman had a 37-year career with the Federal Government that included serving as Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, as an Associate Director at the National Institutes of Health, and as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Mr. Goldman wrote a political op-ed column for the Times-News in 2008, and since 2009 has written such a column for the Asheville Citizen-Times. Mr. Goldman is one of the co-founders of Citizens Against Politics As Usual and is an Honorary member of the Indiana House of Representatives. |
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