EVENT: Prof. Tom Edsall on Elections 2006
Dear Students:
As some of you know, one of the top political writers in American journalism
joined the faculty this fall when Tom Edsall, a veteran Washington Post
reporter was named the first Pultizer-Moore professor in Politics and
Journalism (bio below).
To give you an opportunity to see him in action, Prof. Edsall is going to
give a talk on Nov. 1, during the day. Please see the details below and RSVP
for this session. He is one of the most astute and experienced observers of
our political scene - you won’t want to miss this.
Please join Prof. Tom Edsall
Pulitzer-Moore Chair in Politics and Journalism
For a discussion on “Elections 2006″
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Journalism Building, Room 607A
Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP: JODI LIPPER
Limited seating.
BIO: Thomas B. Edsall covered national politics for 25 years at the
Washington Post. He is now a correspondent for The New Republic and
The National Journal. He is also a frequent contributor to such
magazines as The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the New
Republic, Harper’s, The American Prospect, the Nation, the Washington
Monthly, and Dissent. His awards include the Carey McWilliams Award
of the American Political Science Association, the Bill Pryor Award of
the Newspaper Guild, a year-long fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, and five Media Fellowships at the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
One of Edsall’s primary interests is the growth and strength of the
conservative coalition and Republican Party over the past four
decades. He is the author of Building Red America: the New
Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power, which was
released in August, 2006. A previous book, Chain Reaction: the Impact
of Race, Rights, and Taxes, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for
Nonfiction in 1992. In 1983, he wrote The New Politics on Inequality.
Before joining the Washington Post in 1981, Edsall worked for 14 years
at the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Baltimore Sun, covering a wide
range of local and national beats. In 1965-1966, he served in the
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program, working in East
Baltimore. In 1965, Edsall covered suburban county governments in
South Rhode Island for the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Born in
Cambridge, Mass., Edsall received a B.A. degree in political science
from Boston University. He is married to Mary Deutsch Edsall and they
have one daughter, Alexandra Edsall-Victor, and two grandchildren,
Thomas and Lydia Victor.
