Join the School of Journalism and the Center for Transformative Media for a book talk and light refreshments celebrating the release of Prof. Jonathan Kaufman’s latest book.

In When America Roared, Kaufman lays bare the contending ideologies—and people—who battled for control of business, media and politics in the 1980s, shaping the way we live today.

From pivotal moments in board rooms and court rooms, to cultural touchstones like the birth of hip hop and of conservative talk radio, as well as the author’s eyewitness experiences in Tiananmen Square and Prague, When America Roared is the riveting story of how the 1980s built the world we live in, for better and for worse. It is the decade that made us—and the key to understanding where we go from here.

A reception will follow the talk. There will be books available for sale and signing.