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Monica Henry ’07 Education Coordinator, Clark Art Institute
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Dec. 1, 2008
NORTH ADAMS, MA – Award-winning journalist and author Bob Woodward will present “The War Within” at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) to a full house on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Church Street Center.
While the lecture is free, reserved seating was required and all seats are taken. In addition to the seating in the main auditorium, seating in the Church Street Center’s social hall downstairs, where a live video feed will present the lecture to a second audience, also is full.
This Public Policy Lecture, made possible through a grant from the Ruth Proud Charitable Trust, is in celebration of MCLA’s new political science and public policy major. Woodward will provide the inside story of the Bush administration’s efforts to manage the war in Iraq, as well as anecdotes and stories that shed light on the administration’s key players, how the current Iraqi policy took shape, and comments on what the future holds for U.S. involvement with that country.
Woodward has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 and is the recipient of nearly every major American journalism award. The Pulitzer Prize was given to the Post in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the main reporter for the Post’s articles that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. The Weekly Standard called Woodward “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever.”
In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.”
Woodward has co-authored or authored 11 number-one national best-selling non-fiction books – more than any contemporary American writer. His most recent book, “The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008,” was released on Sept. 8.
Woodward’s other three books, “The Choice” (1996) on the presidential election, “Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom” (2000), and “The Secret Man” (2005) on Watergate’s Deep Throat were national bestsellers for months.
Newsweek Magazine has excerpted six of Woodward’s books in headline-making cover stories; 60 Minutes has done pieces on six of his books; three of his books have been made into movies.
