Senator Fred Harris Reading & Signing at Bookworks - University of New Mexico Press (original) (raw)

Bookworks Hosts Former US Senator Fred Harris

Join us October 7 at Bookworks, when former US Senator Fred Harris will read from his latest book, Report from a Last Survivor.

Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Rights Commission, famously created by President Lyndon Johnson following the terrible riots, disorders, and violent protests that exploded in so many of America’s cities in the “long hot summer” of 1967. He is the last survivor of the 1964 “Four Back Bench US Senators,” which consisted of Walter Mondale of Minnesota, Joseph Tydings of Maryland, Fred Harris of Oklahoma, and Robert Kennedy of New York. He is also the senior surviving former member of the US Senate and one of two “last surviving” Democratic presidential candidates to run in 1976—the other being President Jimmy Carter Jr.

Report from a Last Survivor tells Fred Harris’s many stories: some serious, some funny, and all true. Each story forms a part of this report of a last survivor, a long look back over ninety-three years and counting of a rich life of public service and personal commitment.

“Fred Harris has long practiced politics that really matters (what I call ‘politics with hair on it’), daring to challenge the powers that be on behalf of the powers that ought to be: workaday people who are being knocked down and held down by the privileged few. So meet this guy who’s had the guts, moral stamina, and sense of humor to keep battling the big shots, bastards, and bullshitters for decades, laughing all the way! His memoir is both the tao of Fred and a joyous romp through his lifetime of real politics done right.”—Progressive populist Democrat Jim Hightower

Following the event, Report from a Last Survivor will be available for purchase and signing.

Bookworks

This fall, Bookworks celebrates 39 years as a locally-owned and operated independent bookstore, a literary meeting place in Albuquerque since 1984, from its original home in Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Valley in what was then the Dietz Farm Plaza, and now in the next stage of life, next to the Flying Star Cafe in the Shops on Rio Grande. The store is well-known for hosting high-quality events and readings, including local, regional, and nationally-known authors.