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Thursday, July 12th, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Join us for the evening as David W Moore presents the story of the fight for Durham Point, as three New Hampshire women stood up to the richest man in the world to keep an oil refinery out of their town. Small Town, Big Oil: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World--And Won.
About the author: David W. Moore is an award-winning author, and currently a Senior Fellow at the Carsey Center for Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is also the polling director and frequent columnist for iMediaEthics.org, for which he won the 2015 EPPY Award for his news/political commentary. For twenty-one years (1972-1993), he taught political science at the University of New Hampshire, and for the next thirteen years he worked at the Gallup Organization as a senior editor of the Gallup Poll. He became affiliated with UNH again in 2008. He is the author of three non-fiction trade books, and the co-author of one cross-over trade/academic book: The First Primary: New Hampshire's Outsize Role in Presidential Nominations, with Andrew E. Smith (University Press of New England, 2015); The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls (Beacon Press, hardback, 2008; revised edition in paperback 2009); How To Steal An Election: The Inside Story of How George Bush's Brother and Fox Network Miscalled the 2000 Election and Changed the Course of History (Nation Books, 2006); and The Super Pollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992; trade paperback 1995). He has published essays and articles in The New York Times, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Public Opinion Quarterly, New York Newsday, Public Perspectives, and numerous other books and journals.
"I loved the story - a real page-turner, and eloquently written. Here in this book, unsung heroes - three determined young women - lead the environmental fight to protect their small town against a political-industrial Goliath.