Claremont Insider: This Month at the Athenaeum

Thursday, November 6, 2008

This Month at the Athenaeum

For the politically-inclined and for the policy wonks among us, Claremont McKenna College's Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum has a slate of speakers this month that you might be interested in:

  • Tuesday, November 11th, 6:45pm
    Andrew Bacevich
    Professor of International Relations and U.S. History, Boston University; author, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (2005) and editor, The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (2007)

  • Wednesday, November 12th, 6:45pm
    Michael Chertoff
    US Secretary of Homeland Security; co-author, USA Patriot Act (2001)

  • Monday, November 17th, 6:45pm
    NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd
    Op-Ed columnist, New York Times; author, Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide (2005) and Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (2005)
  • Monday, November 24th, 6:45pm
    US Army lieutenant colonel John Nagl
    Former Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Fellow, Center for a New American Security; author, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (2002) and co-author, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (2007)

M.M.C. Athenaeum
385 E. 8th St.
Claremont, CA 91711-6420
(909) 621-8244

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