Douglas Brinkley

UPDATE: This event has been canceled due to inclement weather. It will be rescheduled in 2023.

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
TUESDAY 12/13. 6 p.m. Clinton Presidential Center. Free. Registration Required.

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Douglas Brinkley, a New York Times best-selling author and celebrated historian, has written entire books about Hurricane Katrina, Walter Cronkite, American Catholicism, Henry Ford, Rosa Parks and a slew of United States presidents and moments. If anyone is qualified to make sense of America, it’s Brinkley. His latest book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening,” takes an 856-page look at the 1960s and ’70s leaders responsible for nudging the national and political consciousness away from protecting aesthetic beauty and toward a critique of corporate excess and a stoic reverence for the existential threat of climate change. Moderated by Dr. Jay Barth, whose calling card includes being an Arkansas Times contributor, a former Hendrix College professor, the current director of the Clinton Presidential Library, and a lifelong stalwart of Arkansas politics, this conversation should be rigorous and finely tuned.