The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum is a non-profit, nationally-recognized literary event. It is dedicated to showcasing renowned authors and interviewers in a candid, uninterrupted hour of conversation which is taped by WFPL and Kentucky Educational Television. (Forums from 2007 and 2008 can be found here.)

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KAF 12/01/09 – Dr. Michael Sandel

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Michael Sandel, renowned Harvard professor and author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, sandel_mwas the featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on Dec. 1, 2009. Sandel was interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John S. Carroll.

Sandel’s book, Justice, offers readers an exhilarating journey of thinking their way through the hard moral challenges we confront as citizens, inviting readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways.

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KAF 11/12/09 – Dr. Harold Varmus

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In the first Kentucky Author Forum of the 2009-10 season, Dr. Harold Varmus was interviewed by Governor Howard Dean in the Bomhard Theater on Nov. 12, 2009.  Dr. Varmus holds a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, andvarmus_h is the former director of the National Institutes of Health, current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and author of The Art and Politics of Science.  Governor Dean is the author of Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform.

The Art and Politics of Science is an elegant blend of science and biography, which also delves into current health issues of global importance. Within its pages, Dr. Varmus offers a glimpse into the world of high-stakes, big-budget science, from the dual perspectives of a man well acquainted with its everyday applications and a scientist whose own research and professional commitments have helped to shape our scientific age (courtesy Kentucky Author Forum).

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