Douglas Brinkley, a best-selling author and one of America\u2019s most revered presidential historians, will speak at The Poinsett Club in downtown Greenville on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
His talk, \u201cHighs and Lows of the American Presidency: Past, Present and Future,\u201d is sponsored by the American History Book Club (AHBC) and Forum and Furman University. The event is open to the public but reservations are required.<\/p>\n
The cost for attending is $50 per person with the opportunity to include a donation to the Furman University Huff Scholars Fund, which supports Furman student internships and research and promotes history literacy in grades K-12.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Huff Scholars award winners will also be honored at the AHBC event. Furman student Eleanor Mixon, a junior history major from Rock Hill, is the recipient of the A.V. Huff American History Scholars Award. The Kate Huff History Scholars Award will be presented to two Furman alumni\u2014Ashley (Barr) Causey \u201997, a teacher at Hillcrest High School in Greenville County, and Audrey Neumann \u201915, a teacher at Roebuck Elementary School in Spartanburg County.<\/p>\n
Brinkley is the\u00a0Katherine\u00a0Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He has written award-winning books on Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. CNN has described Brinkley, who serves as the network\u2019s presidential historian, as \u201ca man who knows more about the presidency than any human being alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six of Brinkley\u2019s books have been selected as Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times, and several more have made the newspaper\u2019s best-seller list. Those books include \u201cRightful Heritage\u201d (2016), which chronicles the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as \u201cThe Nixon Tapes\u201d (2014). He is also co-author of \u201cJFK: A Vision for America\u201d (2017).<\/p>\n
Brinkley is active on the literary front, having edited Jack Kerouac\u2019s diaries, Woody Guthrie\u2019s novel, Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s letters, and Theodore Dreiser\u2019s travelogue.<\/p>\n
His honors include receiving the Benjamin Franklin Award for his book, \u201cThe American Heritage History of the United States\u201d (1998), and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for \u201cDriven Patriot\u201d (1993). In 2017, he won a Grammy Award in the Large Jazz Ensemble category for producing the Ted Nash Big Band album, \u201cPresident Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brinkley is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. In a recent profile, the Chicago Tribune deemed him \u201cAmerica\u2019s new past master.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information or to reserve seats at the Brinkley program, contact Furman\u2019s Nancy Liebezeit at nancy.liebezeit@furman.edu or 864-294-2173.<\/p>\n
About the American History Book Club and Forum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Founded in 2008, the American History Book Club and Forum provides opportunities for the intellectually curious to explore their passion for American history through the written and spoken presentations of great writers and historians. The club is dedicated to creating interest in the nation\u2019s cultural, economic and political history, to inspiring appreciation for enlightened traditions of the American experience and to advancing the United States\u2019 distinctive leadership role in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Douglas Brinkley, a best-selling author and one of America\u2019s most revered presidential historians, will speak at The Poinsett Club in downtown Greenville on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}