Former secretary of defense Robert Gates and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will discuss “A World in Flux: American Power and Principle, Past, Present, and Future” at 3 p.m. Friday, May 8, in Guerry Auditorium.
A book signing with Robert Gates, from 4 to 4:30 p.m. in the Guerry Auditorium lobby, will follow the discussion.
Gates will be on the Sewanee campus as the university’s Baccalaureate speaker.
Jon Meacham, a 1991 Sewanee graduate, received the Pulitzer Prize for “American Lion,” his 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson. His most recent book, the New York Times best seller “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. He is also the author of “Franklin and Winston” and “American Gospel,” as well as an upcoming book about former President George Herbert Walker Bush. Executive editor and executive vice president of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor to Time magazine, a former editor of Newsweek, and a regular contributor on “Meet the Press,” “Morning Joe” and “Charlie Rose.”
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