Richard Haass at Tent

The elegant little home décor shop, Tent at 4950 Route 22, owned and curated by designer Darren Henault, will be the site Saturday of a reception for Dr. Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and prominent voice on American foreign policy.

Henault and Alex Farma-Farmain, co-founder of Alternativ, are feting their friend who in January released his fifteenth book, The Bill of Obligations: Ten Habits of Good Citizens. Described as “a provocative guide to how we must re-envision citizenship if American democracy is to survive,” the book rapidly became a bestseller.

In it Haass argues that while the United States faces dangerous threats “from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change and future pandemics, the greatest peril comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves.”

The reception will be held from 3-6PM. An RSVP is requested to Events@tentnewyork.com.

Haass has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations, served in the State Department under presidents George W Bush and Reagan, at the White House under George H.W. Bush and at the Pentagon during the Carter administration.

He is in his twentieth year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership think tank dedicated to helping people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.