Upcoming New York Association of Scholars Event

Ashley Thorne

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  • February 11, 2010

THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS

THE CUNY ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS

INVITE YOU TO ATTEND OUR FIRST EVENT OF 2010

James Piereson

will discuss

Reflections on the Kennedy Era

James Piereson is  president of the William E. Simon Foundation, a private grant making institution with charitable interests in education, religion, and the problems of youth.  He is also a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute in New York, where he is director of the Center for the American University.  Prior to joining the Simon Foundation, he was executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation, and has served on the Political Science faculties of several prominent universities, including Iowa State, Indiana University  and the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Piereson is the author of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter Books, 2007), as well as the co-author (with J. Sullivan and G. Marcus) of Political Tolerance and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1982). He has in addition  published articles and reviews in Commentary, The New Criterion, The American Political Science Review, The Public Interest, the Journal of Politics, Philanthropy, The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard. Mr. Piereson also serves on the boards of the Center for Individual Rights, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Donors Trust.

February 28, 2010 3:30 PM

at the home of Nahma Sandrow and Bill Meyers

180 Riverside Drive. apt 3A

Entrance on West 90 Street New York, NY

RSVP  - David Gordon    (718) 289-5658      [email protected]

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