Please join GSAS Dean Carlos J. Alonso and Columbia Global Reports Director Nicholas Lemann for a special reception and conversation to celebrate the publication of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics by Timothy Shenk.

Complimentary drinks and light fare will be served.

In Left Adrift, timed to the presidential election, Shenk surveys the past half-century's history of the Democratic Party, and similar parties worldwide. All these parties are caught up in long-running internal debates about whether to emphasize economic or cultural issues, and in competing with conservative parties for the loyalties of working-class voters. Through the life stories of two rivalrous, globe-trotting strategists, Shenk tells a compelling story that also provides a sweeping overview of politics today.

Left Adrift is published by Columbia Global Reports, a non-profit publishing imprint, directed by renowned journalist Nicholas Lemann, that commissions authors to produce short but ambitious books of original thinking and on-site reporting from all over the world.

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A Q&A and book signing will follow. Left Adrift will be available for purchase at the event.

Timothy Shenk is an assistant professor of history at George Washington University. A senior editor at Dissent magazine, he has written for the New York Times, the Nation, the New Republic, and Jacobin, among other publications. He received his bachelor’s degree and PhD in history from Columbia University, has been a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New America Foundation. @Tim_Shenk