Friday Favorites: June 27
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This week I’d like to highlight the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and its president Chris Finan, an author and award winner.
He will be receiving the prestigious Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award tomorrow, presented by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association for his book, “From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America” (Beacon Press, 2007).
The ABFFE was founded in 1990 to fight censorship and free speech by the American Booksellers Association, a booksellers trade group based in Tarrytown.
The award is named for the late Idaho University librarian Eli M. Oboler, known as a “champion of intellectual freedom.”
The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Round Table presents the award every two years for the best published book about free speech.
The award presentation will take place at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
The ABFFE suggests a book each month and for June its selection is “Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets” by Barry Siegel (HarperCollins).
Here’s how the ABFFE describes the book in its newsletter: “Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in U.S. v. Reynolds, which formally recognized the State Secrets Privilege. The case involved three civilian engineers who joined an Air Force crew who boarded a B-29 plane to test secret navigational equipment they were developing for the government. ”
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A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, 
Rocky did NOT train on the steps of the Central Library—he trained on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art!!!