The 2011 What's Next Lecture Series kicks off its season with the leading American historian of our time, Douglas Brinkley, speaking this Saturday, January 29, at 7 pm at UCSC's Humanities Lecture Hall (across from Bay Tree Bookstore) about the history of the environment movement and his new book, “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom." Brinkley's previous books include, “The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America” (2009) and the New York Times best-seller “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast” (2006), which was the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly.
The What’s Next Lecture Series is an exciting collaboration between the City, UCSC and NextSpace. Tickets and more information are available at www.whatsnextlectures.com
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