The Presidency at War Evan Thomas
January 27, 2016
Please join us on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel to hear author, Evan Thomas (
Being Nixon, 2015
), 7-10 p.m. in a lecture titled, The Presidency at War.
Mr. Thomas will be talking about some of the larger problems presidents face when the nation goes to war, discussing the importance of humility in presidential leadership in wartime.
Mr. Thomas is the author of nine books:
The Wise Men
(with Walter Isaacson),
The Man to See
,
The Very Best Men
,
Robert Kennedy
,
John Paul Jones
,
Sea of Thunder
,
The War Lovers
,
Ike’s Bluff
, and
Being Nixon
.
John Paul Jones
and
Sea of Thunder
were
New York Tim
es bestsellers.
Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at
Time
and
Newsweek
, including ten years (1986–96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award.
He wrote
Newsweek’s
fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBS’s Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for
The New York Times
and
The Washington Post
, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.
This event is free and open to the public.
