Join Capital Pride Alliance at the Alliance française for an evening with James Kirchick, author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Kirchick will be in conversation with New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century.

About the Speakers:

James Kirchick is a journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. A writer at large for Air Mail and a contributing writer for Tablet, he has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

Shawn McCreesh is a White House correspondent at the New York Times. Previously he was a features writer at New York magazine, where he covered media, politics and power.

About the Event:

Doors will open at 6:30pm.

This event will be in English. There will be a 45-mn discussion followed by a Q&A.

The author will sign the book.

Light refreshments will be served after the discussion.

The event will end at 9:00pm.

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