Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Broder of the Washington Post will speak at UNLV on Dec. 8 as part of the Barrick Lecture Series.
His presentation, "American Politics: 2000 and Beyond," is set for 7:30 p.m. in Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. The event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets may be picked up beginning Nov. 20 at the Performing Arts Center box office at Ham Concert Hall. For additional information, call 895-2787.
Broder, senior national correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post, joined the Post in 1966 and was named an associate editor in 1975. Today, his twice-weekly syndicated column is carried by more than 260 newspapers across the nation.
In 1971, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. In 1972, an American University survey of 100 political journalists named him America's most respected political reporter. A 1980 American University survey of the Washington press corps concluded, "David Broder's integrity and hard work have led him to be anointed the unofficial 'chairman of the board' by national political writers."
He has covered every national and major state political campaign and convention since 1960, traveling up to 100,000 miles a year to report on the candidates and interview voters. He frequently appears as a panelist and commentator on radio and television.
Broder has been a fellow of the Institute for Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a fellow of the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke University.
He is the author of Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America, which was published in 1980 and discusses the rise of the new generation of leaders in American politics. He also is the author of The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America and is the co-author, with Steven Hess, of The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P.
He began his journalism career in 1953 as a reporter on The Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill. In 1955 he began covering national politics for "Congressional Quarterly." From 1965 to 1966, he wrote about national politics for the New York Times.
A native of Chicago Heights, Ill., Broder graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1947. He earned his master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1951.
The Barrick Lecture Series, funded through a grant from philanthropist Marjorie Barrick, presents nationally and internationally known speakers from a variety of fields each year at UNLV. The presentations are free and open to the public.
For additional information, call 895-2787.
