An Evening With H.W. Brands, 6 p.m., Wednesday September 10, 2003, LBJ Auditorium
H.W. Brands lecture "The Age of Franklin to the Age of Gold" to Friends of the LBJ Library rescheduled for September 10, 2003
Texas historian/author H.W. Brands lecture to the Friends of the LBJ Library, which was scheduled for February 25, 2003, was postponed due to the ice storm in Central Texas. That lecture is now set for September 10th to kick off the 2003-2004 season of the "Evening With..." lectures.
Benjamin Franklin exemplified one version of the American dream, the California Gold Rush another. The Friends of the LBJ Library's "Evening With" program on Wednesday, September 10th, features historian and author H.W. Brands, who will look at how biography, geography, and accident shape history.
Brands' 2000 book, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian David McCullough calls Brands' 2002 work, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, "A fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history." The Age of Gold was named a "Best Book of 2002" selection by the Washington Post Book World and The Christian Science Monitor.
Brands is a Distinguished Professor of History and holder of the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. He is also coordinator of the History of the Americas Research Program at Texas A&M, editor of the Series in Foreign Relations at Texas A&M Press and associate editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly. Brands has authored 16 books, edited four others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews.
Dr. Brands will sign copies of The First American and The Age of Gold in the lobby of the LBJ Auditorium from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.