Modeled after Pauline Schindler’s salons of the same name held in the 1950s, this series focused on American politics. Three authors were invited for the fall sessions: Laura Flanders on the role of women in the Bush administration (September 22nd); Carol Brightman on the myth of unilateral American power (October 3rd); and Tom Hayden on gangs, kids and law-and-order politics (October 7th).