About the Program
From the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, a panel on upward mobility in America. The panelists are: Gloria Browne-Marshall ("Race, Law and American Society"), Walter Kirn ("Lost in the Meritocracy") and Lewis Lapham (editor, Lapham’s Quarterly). The discussion is moderated by author Paul Tough.
Gloria Browne-Marshall
Gloria Browne-Marshall is an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of "The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts."
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Lewis Lapham
Lewis Lapham, former editor of Harper's magazine (where he is now a national correspondent), is the author of many books, including "Pretentions to Empire," "Gag Rule," and "Theater of War."
Katherine S. Newman
Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. Formerly the Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Urban Studies in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Newman has also taught at Columbia University.
Newman is the author of eight books on topics ranging from urban poverty to middle class economic insecurity to school violence.