Tonight, on Thursday, Sept. 18, Mystic author Jonathan Stevenson will draw visitors to Bank Square Books at 7 p.m. with the thoughts and ideas behind his recently published book, Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable.
“Stevenson is a local author who lives just minutes from the bookstore on Pearl Street,” Bank Square Books said in a recent release. “As a strategic analyst, Stevenson examines what it was about the strategic thinking of the Cold War that worked and looks at how it can be applied to the War on Terror. Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable is a probing and urgent look at what was great and what was not about the intellectual dispensations of the Cold War, with an eye towards helping a new generation of strategists navigate, and eventually end, an age of terror.”
Annie Philbrick, co-owner of Bank Square Books, said they requested Stevenson to share his book in the store because of the book’s topic and of his local residency.
“He’s going to come and have a talk about his book and have a book signing,” she said. Based on the number of people in attendance, Philbrick said there will be chairs set for visitors around an area where Stevenson will discuss his new book.
Stevenson is a professor of strategic studies at the Naval War College who spent most of the 1990s in sub-Sahara Africa and Northern Ireland, according to the release. He is the author of two books and numerous articles.
Stevenson recently published an article in the July issue of Wired magazine titled “Tackling al Qaeda Where It Thrives” where he candidly compares the U.S. government to al Qaeda and suggests the new United States president selected in November should “give U.S. foreign policy a makeover.”
Stevenson also published “We Need a New Think Tank For the War on Terror” in the Wall Street Journal in August.
For more information, call Bank Square Books at 860-536-3795.