Tuesday, September 12th, 2017 The Past and Future of American Conservatism: Sam Tanenhaus in conversation with Andrew Coyne

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Tuesday, September 12, 20174:00PM - 6:00PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Series

F. Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Speaker Series

Description

Sam Tanenhaus is a contributing columnist for Bloomberg View and the U.S. Writer at Large for the British monthly, Prospect. He was previously on staff at The New York Times,where he was editor (in chief) of both the Sunday Book Review (2004-13) and the Week in Review (2008-2010), and was also Writer at Large (2013-14). His books include: Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize), and The Death of Conservatism (chosen by The New Yorker as one of its editors’ “100 Favorite Books” of 2009). His articles and essays have appeared inThe New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Atlantic, Esquire, Newsweek, Slate, Time, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications internationally. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, as well as at the White House, the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries. Tanenhaus is currently at work on a biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

A National Post original, Andrew Coyne’s journalism career has also included positions with Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, and the Southam newspaper chain. In addition, he has contributed to a wide range of other publications including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Time, and Saturday Night. Coyne is a long-time member of the CBC’s popular At Issue panel on The National. He is currently a Fellow at the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto.

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Centre for the Study of the United States

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