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Speaker Event: Evan Thomas
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
6:30-7:30 PM Reception
7:30 PM Presentation
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Hotel Washington
515 15th St NW
Washington, DC 20004
Metro: Metro Center Station
Cost: $30.00 UVA Club Members, $38.00 Non-Members
Hotel Washington Website
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The UVA Club is pleased to present an evening with Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor at Newsweek Magazine and UVa Law Class ’77.
Join for an intellectually stimulating evening at the historic downtown Hotel Washington. The topic will be " President Bush: How's He Doing?" The price is $30 for members of the UVA Club of Washington and $38 for non-members. A reception before the speaker will include heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar
**Because event tickets are purchased in advance, payments are non-refundable.
For more information, please contact Carrie at speaker@dchoos.org.
Evan Thomas has been assistant managing editor at Newsweek since 1991. He is the magazine’s lead writer on more news stories and the author of many longer features, including Newsweek’s special behind-the-scenes issues on presidential elections, and more than a hundred cover stories. Thomas was pivotal in spearheading Newsweek’s award-winning coverage on the war on terror from the Washington, D.C. bureau. His reporting and writing on the tragic terror events of September 11 and the Iraq War contributed to Newsweek’s being honored with the most prestigious awards in the magazine industry—the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for 2002 and 2004.
For ten years, 1986-1996, Thomas was Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief.
From 1977-1956, he was a writer and editor at Time magazine. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998 for Newsweek’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Since 1992, Thomas has been a regular weekly panelist on the syndicated public affairs talk show, “Inside Washington.” He has appeared on numerous television shows as a commentator, including: NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “TODAY,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” ABC’s “Nightline,” “Good Morning America,” CNN’s “Larry King Live;’ PBS’s “Charlie Rose,” and “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” He appears regularly on the syndicated radio show, “Imus in the Morning.”
Thomas is the author of five books, all published by Simon & Schuster: “John
Paul Jones,” a biography of the American revolutionary (2003), a New York Times bestseller; “Robert Kennedy: His Life” (2000); “The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA” (1995); “The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams” (1991); and “The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made” (with Walter Isaacson,
1986).
In 2003-04, Thomas was a visiting professor at Princeton. In 2004-05, he will be a visiting professor at Harvard. He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. He is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.
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November 15, 2005
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