Tonight at 7pm, via Zoom, <http://bit.ly/CairnsAndBeacons> we will host Michael Tomasky, the author of *The Middle Out <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671443/the-middle-out-by-michael-tomasky/>*, top editor of *The New Republic* <https://newrepublic.com/authors/michael-tomasky>, and editor of *Democracy: a Journal of Ideas* <https://democracyjournal.org/>. Tonight, Michael will cover topics from his book *The Middle Out*, a brief economic history, and what our national economic system looks like today. Tonight is Michael's presentation, next Thursday is the online discussion of Michael's ideas. Praise for his book includes: “Tomasky has written an engrossing history of ideas. It’s an incisive look
at neoliberalism’s trajectory and the rise of a new intellectual model for truly shared prosperity. *The Middle Out* is critical to understanding our current political economy.” *–Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together*
It would not be enough to say that the articulate Michael Tomasky targets almost all the economic challenges of our time in his extraordinary new book, *The Middle Out*. He writes highly accessibly, makes economics a fascinating story, and has a powerful understanding of how economies work. The American economy has not been run on the basis of well-founded ideas in the last forty years, he makes clear, but on the basis of narrow and self-centered interests. He provides pathways to return to an age of the kinds of values that once made it possible for a compassionately and intelligently run economy to fulfill the lives of all Americans.” *–Jeff Madrick, author of Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty*
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“A provocative, welcome platform for wresting economic conversations away from the moneyed class.” *—**Kirkus Reviews*
All are welcome, join us at bit.ly/CairnsAndBeacons -- Thomas Trahey Mason County District Library Head of Circulation 231-843-8465