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Jonathan Mahler
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Thursday Oct 16, 2008 (6pm)
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Jonathan Mahler is one of those incredible nonfiction writers who combines a scholar's rigor with the limitless curiosity of a really interesting geek. Indeed, the Northwestern alum's oeuvre — which includes fascinating free-form pieces on such disparate topics as the National Enquirer, white-collar unemployment, extravagant baseball salaries, obscure college philosophy programs, the Lexus brand, and forgotten '70s soccer teams — is known for transforming basic news stories into engrossing, epic narratives. Tonight, Mahler discusses his latest book, The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power, which describes in haunting detail the rise and fall of the Bush Administration's unconstitutional Guantanamo Bay military commissions.
