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Josh Hunt for University of NIKE: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
| Location | Kramerbooks, 1517 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
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| Date | Monday, November 12, 2018 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
| Duration | 1 hours |
| Link | https://kramers.com/josh-hunt-university-nike-how-corporate-cash-bought-american-higher-education |
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| Repeats? | No |
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Hailed as a "fascinating, candid tale" (Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent), Joshua Hunt's UNIVERSITY OF NIKE: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education is a dramatic exposé of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for the future of our public institutions and our society. Please join him as he reads from his book and discusses the future of college sports, corporate branding, and public higher education in America. JOSHUA HUNT is a former foreign correspondent for Reuters in Tokyo. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, the California Sunday Magazine, and the Atavist Magazine. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and a recipient of the Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing. |
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