Virtual Meet-the-Author: Gregg Easterbrook

Author of It's Better Than It Looks

The Atlantic Monthly contributor, Gregg Easterbrook will discuss with us his latest work of nonfiction, It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear.

We have riots over brutality and racism in policing. We have a global pandemic. What is there to be optimistic about? Talk with Gregg Easterbrook, author of It’s Better Than It Looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear (2018) and consider his view that by almost every meaningful measure, the modern world is better than it ever has been. The author will summarize the points of his book in ten to twelve minutes, then open the floor to discussion. It’s Better Than It Looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear is available on the MCPL’s Overdrive.

Gregg Easterbrook is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestseller The Progress Paradox. He has been a staff writer, national correspondent or contributing editor of The Atlantic for nearly 40 years. Easterbrook has written for the New Yorker, Science, Wired, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Monthly, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He was a fellow in economics, then in government studies, at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow in international affairs at the Fulbright Foundation. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. After moving all over the world following his wife’s career in the Foreign Service, he and his wife moved to Montgomery County in 1998. 

It's Better than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear is in the MCPL's print collection and is available digitally on the MCPL's Overdrive platform. 

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