Jan. 18 Biden’s First Year: Chat with America’s Foremost Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley

RESERVE NOW: We’ll take your questions during our 30-minute Real & Powerful Fast Chat with America’s foremost presidential historian and frequent media commentator Douglas Brinkley to discuss Biden’s first year, the impact of Jan. 6, the economic impact of COVID-19 and much more.

It happens on Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 2 p.m., live on Zoom. Attendees may provide their questions during the registration process, or during the live event using the onscreen Q&A box. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, there is no cost for this event. 

Douglas Brinkley is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. (Wikipedia) 

His recent book Cronkite won the Sperber Prize while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has received a Grammy Award for Presidential Suite and seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign Relations and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children. (douglasbrinkley.com)

 

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