SESSION TYPE: Featured Speaker SESSION TITLE: Worse Than War STRAND: Social Studies DAY: Friday TIME: 11:15 - 12:15 pm LOCATION: Beekman Parlor, 2nd floor

In Daniel Goldhagen’s best seller Hitler’s Willing Executioners, he took a sobering look at the Holocaust. Now in Worse Than War he trains his same analytic and journalistic eye on genocide and why it happens. How is it that in the 21st century, with ubiquitous access to news that is captured in print and moving image, a form of politics known as “eliminationism” can still exist. The film made from Goldhagen’s Worse Than War will air on PBS starting on April 14th. This session gives teachers of global history – and all educators who care about the state of humanity – a chance to hear from the author himself. Booksigning to follow.

***BOOK SIGNING AT ONSITE BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE TO FOLLOW SESSION (click here for schedule)

BIOGRAPHY

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is the author of Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, which is about reconceptualizing, understanding, and finally stopping genocide. Worse Than War is the basis for a major documentary of the same name which will be broadcasted on PBS on April 14. Among his many publications, Goldhagen is perhaps best known for the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage, 1997. Goldhagen received a B.A. (summa cum laude), M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University.) Until deciding to devote himself full time to writing and speaking, he was a professor in Harvard University’s Government and Social Studies departments.

For more information, please see www.goldhagen.com.