Eric Lichtblau, a Pulitzer-winning Washington author and journalist, is completing a book on hate crimes and white supremacy in America. Mr. Lichtblau will discuss the frightening escalation of violent bigotry in America in the last decade against Jews and other minority groups, a return to dark days the country thought it had left behind.
Register before 5 p.m. the Sunday before for in-person lunch ($10) or by the next evening for the Zoom link.
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Eric Lichtblau
Eric Lichtblau is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men; as well as Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice; and Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis. He is currently working on a book on the alarming surge in hate crimes and white supremacy in America, which will be published by Little, Brown and Company next year.
Lichtblau was a Washington reporter for the New York Times for fifteen years from 2002 until 2017, reporting mainly on national security and law enforcement, and for the Los Angeles Times for fifteen years before that. He has also written long-form, investigative, and analytical pieces during his career for The New Yorker, TIME, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has been a guest on NPR, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and other networks, as well as a speaker at many universities and institutions, and he has taught courses in writing and journalism at Georgetown, UCLA, and the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.