On November 29th, journalist Kevin Baker and author Victoria Bassetti joined the Brennan Center for a lunch-time discussion on post-election voting issues. Kevin Baker is a writer and editor based in New York City. He was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans' best--selling history, The American Century, published by Knopf in 1999. He wrote the monthly "In the News" column for American Heritage magazine from 1998-2007, and has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Frankfurter Rundschau, Harper's magazine, Talk, and The Industry Standard, among other publications. Victoria Bassetti is the author of Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters, published this fall by The New Press and described as "delightfully provocative" by Kirkus Reviews. She spent eight years working in Washington, DC, most of them on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she was a chief counsel and staff director for several of its subcommittees. During her time in DC, she helped write the September 11 Victims' Compensation Fund, bankruptcy reform legislation, and the Economic Espionage Act. She has also worked on several campaigns—from Louisiana to New Hampshire—and on election protection teams. The Brennan Center invites speakers with a variety of viewpoints on a wide range of subjects in its events’ series. The views of the speakers are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Brennan Center.
Why Vote? A Discussion with Kevin Baker and Victoria Bassetti |
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