CA EVENT: Asia Resurgent?

Please join us in a lunch discussion featuring two dynamic authors. Nicholas Schmidle, author of To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan will discuss the most recent and turbulent period of Pakistan’s history. His observations provide a contemporary history of this country at a time when President Pervez Musharraf’s power was waning and the Taliban’s was growing, and when Americans began to realize that Pakistan’s fate is inextricably linked with our own.

Patrick Radden Keefe is author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream. Keefe will share a narrative about the underworld of international organized crime, the rise and fall of an unlikely crime boss and the world’s growing immigration crisis.

Books will be available for purchase. A box lunch will be served after the event.

"Richly reported…Brave enough to seek out some of the country’s toughest jihadis despite the grave dangers facing American reporters in Pakistan, Schmidle has amassed a treasure trove of stories."- The New York Times

"Brilliant…Keefe’s account maintains the swift pace of a thriller…this exploration of how far people will go to achieve the American dream is a must-read." – Publishers Weekly

Participants

Nicholas Schmidle
Author, To Live or to Perish Forever
Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation

Patrick Radden Keefe
Author, The Snakehead
Fellow, The Century Foundation

moderator
Leif Wellington Haase
Director, California Program, New America Foundation