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Conversations on Presidential Leadership
The Aspen Institute and the Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy at Hunter College are proud to present a new discussion series during the 2008 election season. "Conversations on Presidential Leadership" will inject into the campaign season the Institute's brand of thoughtful, informed, nonpartisan dialogue among some of the nation's most respected historians and contemporary observers of the presidency. By invitation only. For more information, please contact miyuki.arikawa@aspeninstitute.org.
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"The President at War"
Featuring: Moderator Tom Brokaw, NBC News; historians David M. Kennedy and Joan Hoff
Monday, January 14, 2008
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"The President and Civil Rights"
Featuring: Moderator Ellis Cose, Newsweek Contributing Editor; historian Taylor Branch, legal scholar Kathleen Sullivan
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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"The President and the Constitution"
Featuring: Moderator Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent; former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Monday, April 7, 2008
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Monday, May 19, 2008: "What Makes a Successful President?"
Program Begins: 7:45 p.m.
Featuring: Moderator Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News; historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former presidential advisor David Gergen.
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 The Aspen Book Series in New York City
The Aspen Book Series in NYC explores issues of our day through the recent non-fiction works of leading authors. These provocative thinkers and writers take on diverse topics, ranging from the financing of wars to the global movement of food to the roots ofconservatism. Discussions are by-invitation-only, and held bimonthly at the Yale Club of New York City. Watch this space for our Fall 2008 line-up, beginning in September. For more information, please contact neela.pal@aspeninstitute.org. Download our calendar here.
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Sarah Murray | Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat November 2007)
With commentator Ken Bloom, CEO, Inttra
February 26, 2008 |
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Tom Brokaw | Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (November 2007)
April 1, 2008
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Mickey Edwards| Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back (March 2008)
With commentator Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton University
June 17, 2008 |
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Past Book Talks (2005-2007)
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