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Alexis Coe presents You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Monday, February 10, 2020

Location:
Main Library
449 Broadway
Lecture Hall
Cambridge

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Harvard Book Store, Mass Humanities, and the Cambridge Public Library welcomes Alexis Coe—author of the award-winning Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis—for a discussion of her latest book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. She will be joined by Noah Feldman. 

Alexis Coe is the award-winning author of Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis. Coe has frequently appeared on CNN and the History Channel, and has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, and many other publications. She is a host of Audible’s Presidents Are People Too! and No Man’s Land. Coe holds a graduate degree in American history and was a research curator at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 2003 he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from Oxford University in 1994. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997. He is the author of eight books: The Three Lives of James Madison, Cool War, Scorpions, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Divided by God, What We Owe Iraq, and After Jihad. He most recently co-authored Constitutional Law, Eighteenth Edition with Kathleen Sullivan.