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February 2013

Pat O'Neill Looks at the Role of the Irish in Kansas City On Both Sides of the Law
Hedrick Smith Looks at the Past to Answer the Question: Who Stole the American Dream?
Washington and Jefferson: Historian Henry Wiencek Explores Two Very Different Approaches to Slavery
Poet Gary Jackson Reads from and Discusses His First Book Missing You, Metropolis
2013 Jackson County Spelling Bee Holds Championship at Plaza Branch Library
Laura Lippman Discusses Her Latest Novel And When She Was Good
Laura Lippman Discusses Her Latest Novel And When She Was Good
The World Ends Not with a Whimper But with a Laugh In Stanley Kubrick's Satiric Classic, Dr. Strangelove
Author Tim Weiner Delves Into The FBI's Secret Intelligence Operations
Prepare for a "bumpy night" with Bette Davis and All About Eve
Photo-Journalist Gil Cohen-Magen Reveals Israel's Multi-faith World
Filmmaker Terence O'Malley Examines The Relationship of Harry Truman and "Boss" Tom Pendergast
Library to Screen Advance Footage From New PBS Documentary About Composer and Kansas City Native Virgil Thomson
English Speaking Union Hosts Annual Shakespeare Competition At Kansas City Public Library's Plaza Branch
Marilyn Yalom Examines the Gallic Gospel of Romance In How the French Invented Love
Historian Walter Stahr Surveys the Career Of William Henry Seward, Lincoln's Indispensable Man

January 2013