The Hay-Adams’ Author Series Luncheon August 31 Will Feature Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Soon to Be Released Work, Leadership: In Turbulent Times
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The Hay-Adams’ Author Series Luncheon August 31 Will Feature Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Soon to Be Released Work, Leadership: In Turbulent Times
WHAT: On August 31, the award-winning Hay-Adams, located steps from the White House at 800 16th Street, NW, 20006, will host its next Author Series luncheon honoring Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss her latest work, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, due to be released September 18, 2018. Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, who has the distinction of being the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library, will be on hand to introduce Goodwin.
The Hay-Adams’ Author Series, where literary crowds honor literary masters, is an on-going event, which hosts outstanding writers in a historic setting, directly overlooking the White House at Top of The Hay. One will enjoy exceptional food, drink and lively conversation. Tickets are priced at $90 per person (all inclusive), which includes a three-course, prix fixe menu with wine pairings http://www.hayadams.com/
Additionally, Kramerbooks (http://kramers.com) will be on hand so guests will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, in advance of its September 18 release date, which Goodwin can sign and personalize after the luncheon.
Tickets go on sale August 6 and will be available online at: http://www.hayadams.com/
WHO: Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author.
Her seventh book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times is the culmination of Goodwin’s five-decade career of studying the American presidents. The book delivers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership as exemplified by Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. It provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field and for all of us in our everyday lives.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Goodwin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College. Her career as a presidential historian and author was inspired when as a 24-year-old graduate student at Harvard she was selected to join the White House Fellows, one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.
Subsequently she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government, including a course on the American Presidency. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1977) became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. Goodwin followed with No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2005, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln received the prestigious Lincoln Prize, as well as the inaugural Book Prize for American History. Her most recent book was The New York Times’ bestselling The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (November 2013), which won the Carnegie Medal.
Goodwin lives in Concord, Massachusetts. She was the first woman to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room and is a devoted fan of the World Series-winning team. Well known for her appearances and commentary on television, Goodwin is seen frequently on all the major television and cable networks and shows including Meet the Press and The Late Show with Colbert Report.
WHEN: The luncheon will be held on Top of The Hay on Friday, August 31, 2018, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.).
WHERE: The Hay-Adams is located at 800 16th Street, NW, Washington DC, 20006, across Lafayette Square from the White House. The historic Hay-Adams offers guests Washington’s most prestigious address with views overlooking the White House, Lafayette Square and St. John’s Church, the “Church of the Presidents.” The hotel is just minutes from the Smithsonian, the Museums, the Washington Monument, the National Mall, as well as convenient to Metro stations and the convention center. For reservations or more information call (202) 638-6600 or visit their website at www.hayadams.com.
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