Dr. Douglas Brinkley, a best-selling author and one of America’s most revered presidential historians, will speak at The Poinsett Club in downtown Greenville on Thursday, October 25, at 6 p.m.
His talk, “Highs and Lows of the American Presidency: Past, Present and Future,” is sponsored by the American History Book Club (AHBC) and Forum and Furman University. The event is open to the public but reservations are required. More information can be found in the Furman News.
The Furman Libraries have several of Dr. Brinkley’s award-winning books.
- Rightful heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America
- The Nixon tapes : 1971-1972
- Cronkite
- Rise to globalism : American foreign policy since 1938
- The quiet world : saving Alaska’s wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960
- Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?: a tour of presidential gravesites
- The Reagan diaries
- The wilderness warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America
- The great deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- Tour of duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War
- Wheels for the world : Henry Ford, his company, and a century of progress, 1903-2003
- The Mississippi and the making of a nation : from the Louisiana Purchase to today
- Mine eyes have seen the glory : the life of Rosa Parks
- The unfinished presidency : Jimmy Carter’s journey beyond the White House
- FDR and the creation of the U.N.
- The majic bus : an American odyssey
- Dean Acheson : the Cold War years, 1953-71