(10.28) Brown Professor Corey Brettschneider will discuss impeachment, the Mueller report, and other matters relevant to this administration. Following the lecture the author will be signing his widely-praised new book, The Oath and The Office, now in paperback. (Facebook event.)
From the New York Times review:
Brettschneider’s insistence on a coherent, unified constitutional narrative allows him to claim that the liberal values he favors are dictated by the Constitution itself. Presidents take an oath to the Constitution; therefore, those values come with the office.
And from the New York Review of Books:
Maybe, after more than two years of President Trump, what we need more than anything is a collective reminder of what we have a right to expect from the occupant of the White House—how a president should behave and what the presidency should be. In that vein, I end this essay by recommending a book that has received too little attention since its publication last year. It’s not an impeachment book. In fact, it’s a how-to-avoid-impeachment book by a political scientist at Brown University, Corey Brettschneider.
6pm to 8pm, Monday, October 28, WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley Street, (directions)