BOOKS & COFFEE: A MONTHLY REVIEW OF BOOKS

is moving to 

***THE CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTER***

This year's second meeting of Books & Coffee, a forum for public discussion, will be held tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 14, in a new location---the Circle Theatre of the Chattanooga Theatre Center, which is at 400 River Street, just off Frazier Avenue, on the northeast corner of Coolidge Park. 

We are pleased to be joined by historian Michael Woodward of the McCallie School, who will speak on Nat Hentoff's new book THE WAR ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE GATHERING RESISTANCE. 

Nat Hentoff, longtime writer for the Village Voice and veteran defender of civil liberties, argues that the legal "steamroller" unleashed after September 11 is diminishing our civil rights. Under measures such as the USA Patriot Act, Hentoff charges, the FBI has authority to enter your home without serving a warrant first, take "evidence," copy computer files and even install software that will record your every keystroke for government perusal. All of this is done in the name of fighting terrorism, but, Hentoff laments, the government no longer requires hard evidence of terrorist ties, and actions as simple as attending a protest rally or donating to a charitable organization are now enough to arouse the interest of federal spies. Far from being partisan in intent, THE WAR ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS is an equal-opportunity critic, and reaches back to the vision of the nation's founders for a direction out of the current crisis. "Anyone concerned with civil liberties," says Publishers Weekly, needs to read this "report from the frontlines of this latest constitutional struggle." 


Please join us for this fascinating evening, and help us celebrate our move to a wonderful new venue. Books & Coffee is cosponsored by UTC's SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities and by Covenant College. The event is free---and so is the Greyfriar's coffee! The general public is warmly invited.

(For directions to the Chattanooga Theatre Center, follow this link: http://www.theatrecentre.com/default.htm
scroll down the home page, and then click on the link at the lower left for "Directions by MapQuest.")

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Books & Coffee Schedule for the remainder of 2003:

November 4
Lucien Ellington of UTC on Diane Ravitch's THE LANGUAGE POLICE: HOW PRESSURE GROUPS RESTRICT WHAT STUDENTS LEARN

All meetings are at 7:30 PM, at the Chattanooga Theatre Center, 400 River Street. Hosted by Covenant College and the SunTrust Chair of the Humanities at UTC