Journalist Bob Woodward will speak at Ithaca College on Wednesday, April 18 as part of the Park Scholar Tenth Anniversary Speaker Series.The lecture is presented by the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
Bob Woodward
"State of Denial"
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Ben Light Gymnasium, Hill Center
Bio:
As the most respected investigative reporter in the news business, Bob Woodward has earned nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize. Woodward first gained national attention when he teamed with Carl Bernstein to investigate the burglary at the Watergate office building.
Woodward is the only contemporary American writer to author at least nine #1 best-selling non-fiction books, including: All the President's Men and The Final Days, co-authored with Bernstein; and The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, co-authored by former staff writer Scott Armstrong. Others include Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, The Commanders, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle, The Agenda: Inside The Clinton White House, and The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won. In 2000 he published, Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom, a national best-selling look at the American economy, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, and Greenspan's economic legacy. Other books include: Bush at War, Plan of Attack, and State of Denial.
Named one of the Best Investigative Reporters in America by The New York Times, Bob Woodward has been the Assistant Managing Editor of Investigative News for The Washington Post since 1982.
Prior to reporting, Woodward served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer. He began his career as a "newspaper man" with the Sentinel, out of Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1971 he joined The Post and in 1979 became Assistant Managing Editor of Metropolitan News.
This series is made possible through the generosity of the Park Foundation.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20070402134318229