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2008-09

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Meet the Author


Fall 2009

Join the Office of Communications for its Meet the Author series this fall and delve into the lives of legendary Americans Justice Louis Brandeis and Marian Anderson.

Meet the Author events are free and open to the public. Bring a friend; buy a book; have it signed.

Louis D Brandeis: A LifeTuesday, September 29, 2009
5:45 p.m.
Faculty Club

Melvin I. Urofsky
Professor of Law and Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of History
Virginia Commonwealth University

“Louis D. Brandeis: A Life”

Urofsky’s eagerly anticipated book has been described as the first full-scale biography in 25 years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court. The book looks at Brandeis as reformer, lawyer and jurist, but also Brandeis the man. This event is cosponsored by the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice.

 

Sound of FreedomWednesday, November 11, 2009
4 p.m.
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library

Raymond Arsenault, M.A. '74, Ph.D. '81
John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and
Codirector of the Florida Studies Program
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

“The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America”

As the book’s publisher, Bloomsbury Press, notes, “Easter 2009 will mark the 70th anniversary of one of the most dramatic concerts in American history: world famous African-American contralto Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial.” Arsenault’s work is the story of Anderson’s journey to that time, which transformed her into an American hero and a major figure of the Civil Rights movement.