Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone will be in New York next week to to discuss their new book On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation. The book is the result of conversations the two had while working on two documentaries, South of the Border and The Untold History of the United States series for Showtime.
From Haymaret Books:
Filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on the politics of history. Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten—or deliberately buried—episodes of American history, from the U.S. intervention against the Russian Revolution, to the dynamic radicalism of the Wobblies, how Henry Wallace’s nomination for the vice-presidency was deliberately thwarted by Democratic Party machine insiders, to the ongoing close connections between various U.S. presidents and the Saudi royal family.
Tariq Ali will also be doing the following speaking events:
Princeton, NJ
Princeton University
January 20, 2012
Washington, DC
Busboys and Poets
January 21, 2012
Houston, TX
Rothko Chapel
January 23, 2012
ADAM- If you or any kindred spirit attend this event, it might be fun to ask Tariq Ali his opinion of “Just War Theory.” I suspect that I know what he would say, more or less.
The link for the New York talk is kaput. Here’s the correct one:
New York Public Library, Thursday, January 19, 7 pm. $25 general admission (wow); $15 for ‘friends,’ seniors and students — http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/01/19/opening-night-tariq-ali-oliver-stone-conversation?nref=56896
Tariq Ali is still alive? I remember him from his street-fighting days.
October 2010 Guernica interview of Tariq Ali on the publication of “The Obama Syndrome”…Very long and billed as “droning on”….
http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2064/ali_10_1_10/
If FDR had died one year earlier, Henry Wallace would have become President. If that had happened, I wonder whether there would even have been a Cold War.
By the time of the Democratic convention in 1944, it was apparent to party insiders that FDR’s health was failing. They didn’t want Wallace to be in a position to succeed to the presidency.