Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America—A Case Study in the Art, Science, and Challenges of Biography
Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus, best-selling and prize-winning author of books on American politics and media, is the former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Book Review. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities as well as at the George W. Bush White House and the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries.
His feature articles and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Prospect, and more than two dozen other publications in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post and Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Tanenhaus's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Open Academy and the Salvatori Center, both at CMC.
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