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J. David McSwane in Conversation with Carl Hulse.

Location 645 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Washington, DC (and virtual)
Date Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Duration   1 hours
Link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-event-j-david-mcswane-pandemic-inc-with-carl-hulse-tickets-291431197557
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East City Bookshop welcomes J. David McSwane with his new book Pandemic, Inc., in conversation with New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent Carl Hulse.

Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the authors during audience Q&A.

COVID-19 Information: Please note that East City Bookshop continuously monitors public health guidance to ensure the safety of customers, authors, and our staff and reserves the right to adjust in-person events. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for all in-person attendees.

About Pandemic, Inc.

For readers of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand.

The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find.

In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes.

Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile.

Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and revelatory, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

About J. David McSwane

J. David McSwane is a reporter in ProPublica’s DC office. Previously, he was an investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. McSwane’s reporting has spurred new laws, state and federal criminal investigations, and forced belt-tightening lawmakers to invest in social programs. He has won numerous awards, including Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize, a Scripps Howard Award, two Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, and the Peabody.

About Carl Hulse

Carl Hulse is the Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times and an acknowledged authority on the U.S. Congress and national political affairs. A veteran of more than 35 years reporting in the nation's capital, Carl is a sought-after analyst who has covered 7 presidencies and 18 congressional election cycles. He is the author of Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court" a critically acclaimed account of the history-making partisan battle over the makeup of the court and the federal judiciary. He has also served as the Washington Editor and Chief Congressional Correspondent of The Times and writes the regular "On Washington" column. He and his family are longtime residents of Capitol Hill.

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