Tonight: "Adult Education: War" at Union Hall

After a short summer hiatus, Adult Education is back and this time the topic is War.

We have lectures from two journalists who have written books about very different horrors from very different wars, an autodidact who has written about the use of music as propaganda in war and ... I am talking about food truck turf wars.

Here is the lineup:

JIM FREDERICK: Anatomy of a Breakdown: The Ordinary Men of 1st Platoon and Their Extraordinary Downfall
Frederick tells the story of 1st Platoon, a case of intrigue, rape, murder, toxic leadership and, occasionally, dumb luck that culminated in catastrophe.

KEN FREEDMAN: Seven Inches of Propaganda
WFMU's Ken Freedman gives an overview of American propaganda's hit records throughout the ages.

BRENDAN KOERNER: The Man Who Would Be Ang
World War II's most brutal backwater was the Indo-Burmese jungle, where 15,000 African-American GIs struggled to build a road to nowhere. Brendan I. Koerner will recount how one of those soldiers, Pvt. Herman Perry, wound up going native amidst a tribe of xenophobic headhunters.

CHARLES STAR: Food Trucks And the Fight For the Perfect Parking Space
Charles looks at some recent scuffles among and about food trucks and has found that it can get much more violent than you'd expect.

Speaker biographies after the jump.

The New Yorker and Time Out New York both recommend the show. Who are you to disagree?

JIM FREDERICK is the Managing Editor of Time.com, an Executive Editor at TIME magazine, and author of Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, (Harmony Books, 2010). He is co-author, with former US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, of The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea, (University of California Press, 2008). He lives in New York City.

KEN FREEDMAN is the Station Manager of WFMU, the longest running and most renowned freeform radio station in the United States. He recently founded the Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org), an online music library and social site based on curated music licensed under alternative copyrights such as creative commons licenses. Freedman has served on the board of public science and technology companies and is a technology advisor to the National Federation of Community (NFCB) broadcasters.

BRENDAN I. KOERNER is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with one each of wife, cat, and toddler. Follow him on twitter: @charles_star. He runs this blog with his wife, Carrie McLaren.