Mark Hertsgaard, journalist, author, broadcaster and activist, will visit Hamilton College for a lecture on Monday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Hertsgaard's books include Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future (1999); A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995); On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988); and Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy (1983). His next book, about America and why it fascinates and infuriates the rest of the world, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and publishers in eight other countries in Fall 2002.
Hertsgaard has contributed to newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The London Observer and Le Monde Diplomatique. He has appeared on many television and radio program at home and abroad, including "Nightline," "Crossfire," and "Today" in the United States and others for the BBC. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio and has lectured at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale Universities.
Hertsgaard appears as part of Hamilton's Public Affairs Journalism series, which is sponsored by English 270W, Public Affairs Journalism; the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center; the departments of English and of rhetoric and communication; and the communication studies program.
