Name: Joseph Sassoon Discusses his book The SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire in Conversation with New York Times Writer Binyamin Appelbaum
Start: 2025-09-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-12T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Hill Center DC

September 2025
SOLD OUT! At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Lectures & Conversations

Hill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series, At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. Since taking office, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened. As historian Marcia…

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Joseph Sassoon Discusses his book The SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire in Conversation with New York Times Writer Binyamin Appelbaum

Friday, September 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States

Lectures & Conversations

"As engaging as Sassoon renders the intricacies of business and religion, the book is at its best when the family’s supercharged ambitions take center stage....Rags-to-riches stories may all be the same, but it’s the way in which a fortune is lost that’s truly compelling. Sassoon’s detailed account of the decentralization of family power and the proliferation of descendants interested in spending but not…

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September 2025