National Book Award winner and Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows will discuss "The 'Axis of Evil' and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex and Dangerous World," at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The public portion of the program begins at 6:45 p.m., with free seating on a first-come basis.
Fallows has worked for The Atlantic Monthly magazine for more than 25 years, covering a range of topics including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, and economic trends and patterns. His career has also taken him to the White House, where he served as President Carter's speechwriter from 1997-1979, and to jobs with U.S.News & World Report, The Washington Monthly, and Texas Monthly, as editor.
A Southern California native, Fallows attended Redlands High School, and studied American history and literature at Harvard, while serving as editor of its daily newspaper, the Harvard Crimson. From 1970 to 1972 he studied economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Fallows is the author of seven books, including the National Book Award-winning National Defense (1981) and was recently awarded the National Magazine Award for his Atlantic Monthly article about the consequences of victory in Iraq. His newest work, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, will be released in early 2009.