The Forgotten Father of Social Security

Community Room

Pierre Epstien, actor, playwright, and author of Abraham Epstein -The Forgotten Father of Social Security presents this work about his father.

A reading
Friday 11 February 7:00pm

How an idiosyncratic seat-of-the pants-Karl-Marx-reading social activist managed to motivate bureaucrats and politicians, including FED himself.

This book is written with grace, elegance and verve.
– Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation

Westbeth’s programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State. Westbeth is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.