Mar

4 2021

Book Festival in Your Living Room presents a evening with Walter Isaacson

8:00PM - 9:00PM  

Greenberg Families Library 21 Nadolny Sachs Private
Ottawa, ON K2A 1R9

Contact Greenberg Library
613-798-9818 ext. 245
library@jccottawa.com
https://www.jccottawa.com/book-festival-living-room/

$ Cost $ 11.00

Book Festival in Your Living Room presents a evening with Walter Isaacson!

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

Click the registration link for more information and to purchase your tickets! **prices are in USD and there is an option to include a copy of the book

Sponsor: The Greenberg Families Library in concert with the National JCC Literary Consortium