Journalist and Author Tom Friedman to Give 2012 Shilling Lecture (in Georgetown)
The Shilling Lecture series is hosted by Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas which is north of Austin. The lecture is free. A map of the campus is available at http://www.southwestern.edu/visit/campusmap.php .
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Southwestern University’s 2012 Shilling Lecture will feature Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Robertson Center.
Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes, and according to Foreign Policy magazine, “Friedman doesn’t just report on events; he helps shape them.” Vanity Fair called him “the country’s best newspaper columnist,” and he has been named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report.
Friedman is the author of several bestselling books, including Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution − and How It Can Renew America, The World is Flat, Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award.
Friedman’s latest book, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, is titled That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back.
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