WHO: John Nichols, The Capital Times, The Nation Magazine

WHAT: Book Reading -- THE "S" WORD: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism

WHEN: 7 p.m., Wed. June 8, 2011

WHERE: Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Street, Evjue Room

From the Washington Post: "What do Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. have in common? According to John Nichols, Washington correspondent for the Nation, these legendary Americans were more than a little bit red. “The United States is a country that has always been and should continue to be informed by socialists, socialist ideals and a socialist critique of public policies,” Nichols writes in “The ‘S’ Word,” a search for the legacy of our homegrown radicals.