‘Nixon, Watergate and Presidential Politics’: Historian Douglas Brinkley to speak at Rowan
‘Nixon, Watergate and Presidential Politics’: Historian Douglas Brinkley to speak at Rowan
March 17, 2022
CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will discuss the 50th anniversary of Watergate and the presidency of Richard Nixon during a lecture at Rowan University on Monday, March 28.
Brinkley (at right), the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University, will present “Nixon, Watergate and Presidential Politics” in a lecture at 5 p.m. in the Eynon Ballroom of the Chamberlain Student Center, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro.
Brinkley’s talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the President’s Lecture Series, which brings prominent speakers to campus to address a host of topics—from education to science to history to politics.
A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Brinkley is a prolific author. His two-volume annotated “The Nixon Tapes” won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Six of his books have been named “Notable Books of the Year” by The New York Times, while seven others have New York Times best sellers.
His “Notable Books of the Year” include: “Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years”; “Driven Patriot: The Live and Times of James Forrestal” (with Townsend Hoopes); “The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House”; “Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress”; “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast”; and “The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.”
Brinkley’s New York Times bestsellers include: “The Reagan Diaries”; “The Great Deluge”; “The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion”; “Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War”; “Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944” (with Ronald J. Drez); “The Wilderness Warrior”; “Cronkite”; and “Rightful Heritage: Franklin Roosevelt and the Land of America.”
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for “The Great Deluge,” the publication also received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Brinkley was personally selected by Nancy Reagan to edit Ronald Reagan’s presidential diaries and, in 2017, the New-York Historical Society selected him as its official U.S. presidential historian. Brinkley serves on the Board of Trustees at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Century Association, Society of American Historians and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress.
Recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies, Brinkley won a Grammy Award (Best Jazz Ensemble) for co-producing “Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom” and was nominated for another Grammy for “Gonzo,” his collaboration with Johnny Depp on the soundtrack for a documentary on Hunter S. Thompson.
Brinkley’s talk at Rowan is sponsored by the Office of the President, the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, the Department of History, the College of Communication & Creative Arts, and the Rowan Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship.
Previous speakers at Rowan’s President’s Lecture Series have included, among many others, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Cornel West, Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Kozol, Scott Sagan, Sergei Khrushchev, and Dan Rather.