Rick Shenkman is an award-winning investigative reporter, a New York Times bestselling author, and the publisher and editor of the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Rick Shenkman’s new book is Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. See him speak Thursday night at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Civics series.