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Ruth Winter Community Lecture at Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Ill – Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, will present the annual Ruth Winter Community Lecture at Lake Forest College on Monday, April 8 at 8 p.m. in Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. The title of Professor Brinkley’s talk is "The Idea of an American Century." The event is free and open to the public. An early arrival is recommended to guarantee seating. Lily Reid Holt Chapel is located on the College’s Middle Campus at the corner of College and Sheridan Roads in Lake Forest. For more information, please call 847-735-6010. Alan Brinkley is recognized as a major scholar of modern American political history and a renowned teacher of undergraduates. He serves as the chair of the department of history at Columbia University and is the senior author of The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, A Practical Guide to the College Classroom. Other published works by Brinkley include: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992 and subsequent editions); The End of reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is presently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce, to be published by Knopf. Brinkley’s essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,250 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries.
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