Book Event: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America

With legal analyst Barbara McQuade

Join this fall as we welcome local legal analyst, law professor, and author Barbara McQuade as she talks about her best-selling book, Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.

Barbara is a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School, her alma mater, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a co-host of the podcast #SistersInLaw. From 2010 to 2017, McQuade served as U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Ms. McQuade was appointed by President Barack Obama, and was the first woman to serve in her position. Earlier in her career, she worked as a sports writer and copy editor, a judicial law clerk, an associate in private practice, and an assistant U.S. attorney.

In her sensational book, Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, Barbara expertly breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few. The book is an urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation impacts democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics.

Of Barbara and her book, Eric H. Holder Jr, 82nd Attorney General of the United States, says “A great public servant and one of the most acute observers of our time shares insightful views about the menace of disinformation.”

On October 22nd at the Roadhouse, Barbara will talk to us in person about how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society, how it is designed to evoke a strong emotional response to push us toward more extreme views, unable to find common ground with others, and how we can fight against it. Copies of her book will be available for purchase and autograph, and delicious appetizers will be included.

Appetizer Menu:
Trio of Bruschetta (V)
Roasted red pepper with Creamery Cream Cheese, roasted mushroom with Creamery Goat Cheese, and Pesto with SarVecchio Cheese
Texas Hot Link & Pimento Cheese Crackers
Fruit Skewers (V)