Coffee and Conversation Held At Jefferson Parish Library 10/12

Coffee and Conversation season begins with cultural historian and author Patricia Brady at 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at the Jefferson Parish Library. This session will be facilitated by Dave Johnson, executive editor and art director of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine.

The founder and long-time director of the publications department of the Historic New Orleans Collection, Brady has written and published extensively on an impressive range of subjects, including first ladies, free people of color, and Louisiana history.

At our C&C session, she will discuss her latest book, A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson, a chronicle of the founding couple's controversial 40-year love affair amid the tumult of the American Revolution. John Berendt (author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) calls the work "a fast-paced political drama combined with a controversial love story that was shocking in its day. Patricia Brady's A Being So Gentle is, frankly, irresistible."

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Free and open to the public
Time: 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Venue: Meeting rooms of the East Bank Regional Library,
4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.

Coffee and Conversation is produced by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in conjunction with the Jefferson Parish Library and is sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Books by participating authors are made available by the Friends of the Library Association and are for sale during the programs.