Public | Mar, 7 2024 12:15PM - 1:30PM
In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz.
Join us at 12:15 pm in Bass Lecture Hall at The LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Philip Taubmanis a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His biography of George Shultz, In The Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz, was published by Stanford University Press in 2023. Before joining CISAC in 2008, Mr. Taubman worked at the New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, specializing in national security issues, including United States diplomacy, and intelligence and defense policy and operations. At the Times, Taubman served as a Washington correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, deputy editorial page editor, Washington bureau chief and associate editor. He is currently working on a book about Robert McNamara. Taubman was a history major at Stanford, Class of 1970, and served as editor-in-chief of theStanford Daily;in 1969. Before joining the New York Times, he worked as a correspondent for Time magazine and was sports editor of Esquire. He was a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees, 1978-1982, and served as secretary of the Stanford Board, 2011-2018. He is author of The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (Harper Collins, 2012) and Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage. (Simon & Schuster, 2003).
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