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SUMMARY:Virtual Meet-the-Author: Gregg Easterbrook
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DESCRIPTION:The Atlantic Monthly contributor\, Gregg Easterbrook will disc
 uss with us his latest work of nonfiction\, It's Better Than It Looks: Rea
 sons for Optimism in an Age of Fear..\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/4365
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>We have riots over brutality and racism in
  policing. We have a global pandemic. What is there to be optimistic about
 ? Talk with Gregg Easterbrook\, author of&nbsp\;<em>It&rsquo\;s Better Tha
 n It Looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear</em> (2018) and conside
 r his view that by almost every meaningful measure\, the modern world is b
 etter than it ever has been. The author will summarize the points of his b
 ook in ten to twelve minutes\, then open the floor to discussion.&nbsp\;It
 &rsquo\;s Better Than It Looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear is 
 available on the MCPL&rsquo\;s Overdrive.</p>\n<p>Gregg Easterbrook is the
  author of eleven books\, including the New York Times bestseller&nbsp\;Th
 e Progress Paradox. He has been a staff writer\, national correspondent or
  contributing editor of The Atlantic for nearly 40 years. Easterbrook has 
 written for the New Yorker\, Science\, Wired\, Harvard Business Review\, t
 he Washington Monthly\, the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal and t
 he Los Angeles Times. He was a fellow in economics\, then in government st
 udies\, at the Brookings Institution\, and a fellow in international affai
 rs at the Fulbright Foundation. In 2017 he was elected to the American Aca
 demy of Arts and Sciences. After moving all over the world following his w
 ife&rsquo\;s career in the Foreign Service\, he and his wife moved to Mont
 gomery County in 1998.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><em>It's Better than it Looks: Reaso
 ns for Optimism in an Age of Fear</em> is in the MCPL's print collection a
 nd is available digitally on the MCPL's <a href="https://mcplmd.overdrive.
 com/search?query=Gregg%20Easterbrook">Overdrive</a> platform.&nbsp\;</p>\n
 <p>Simply&nbsp\;copy and paste the Zoom link in your web browser. You may 
 be asked to download a free web app (takes a few seconds)\, but no Zoom ac
 count is required to participate.</p>\n<p><strong>Join Zoom Meeting</stron
 g><br /><strong><a href="https://zoom.us/j/96420489804">https://zoom.us/j/
 96420489804</a></strong><strong></strong></p>\n<p>How to telephone or dial
  into a Zoom meeting (use this option if you do not have a computer\, smar
 tphone\, or tablet)</p>\n<p>1 (301) 715-8592 US</p>\n<p>Enter the meeting 
 ID</p>\n<p>Meeting ID: 964 2048 9804</p>\n<p><br />Please read this inform
 ation on MCPL's Zoom Security settings<br /><a href="https://montgomerycou
 ntymd.gov/library/policies/zoom.html">https://montgomerycountymd.gov/libra
 ry/policies/zoom.html</a></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://mcpl.libnet.info/event/436
 5143
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