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. Gates will be on the Sewanee campus as the University’s Baccalaureate speaker. A book signing from 4 to 4:30 p.m. in the Guerry Auditorium lobby will follow the discussion.
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. His next book is 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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