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Politics Takes Center Stage at Drew Forum
Drew to host nationally known speakers: Fox's Bill O'Reilly, CNN's Donna Brazile and Margaret Hoover, Pulitzer winner Doris Kearns Goodwin
Madison, N.J. - In a presidential election year, Drew University is a hotbed of political commentary.
Four nationally recognized political commentators will lend their voices to the school’s Drew Forum series: Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, CNN’s Donna Brazile and Margaret Hoover and Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
O’Reilly will speak on Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown. As host of Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly is known for uncompromising news analysis that is sometimes controversial but never boring. He is also a best-selling author whose most recent work, Killing Reagan, explores how the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 changed his presidency.
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Tickets for the O’Reilly talk are $45 and can be purchased at mayoarts.org.
On March 3 at 8 p.m., CNN commentators Brazile and Hoover will speak at the Concert Hall inside the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts. Brazile, a Democratic strategist, and Hoover, a Republican strategist and great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign and other hot-button political issues.
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Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Kearns Goodwin will cap this year’s Drew Forum series as the Thomas H. Kean Visiting Lecturer at the university’s Simon Forum on March 30 at 8 p.m. During her talk, Kearns Goodwin will pull back the curtain on the exhausting and costly presidential campaign.
Tickets are $32 each for the Brazile and Hoover and Kearns Goodwin talks, and can be purchased by calling 973-408-3917 or at drew.edu/forum.
Since its establishment more than a decade ago, the Drew Forum has been a leading public lecture venue. Past speakers include American presidents and vice presidents, foreign heads of state, nationally recognized print and broadcast journalists, noted historians and White House cabinet secretaries. The series is presented with support from Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, and from The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, the former two-term New Jersey governor who served as president of Drew University from 1990 to 2005.
