Events & Appearances
Upcoming Events
- East Lansing, MI — October 27, 2011 — Annual fall meeting/public lecture of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society @ Kellog Center Auditorium, Michigan State University @ 8:00 PM
- Los Angeles, CA — November 17, 2011 — AFA's 2011 Global Warfare Symposium at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza - Symposium 3:00-3:45 PM, Book signing TBA
Past Events
- Los Angeles — May 1, 2011 — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on University of California campus @ 1:00 PM
- Charlottesville, VA — March 18, 2011 — University of Virginia, Center for Politics; "JFK & Camelot: Political Image-Making"
- New York City — March 17, 2011 — New York Society for Ethical Culture - Reagan / Gorbachev: Did They End the Cold War Forever? @ 6:30 pm - moderated by Lesley Stahl - hosted by New York Historical Society
- Boston, MA — February 21, 2011 — Kennedy Library - 50th Anniversay Conference and Reunion
- Los Angeles / Santa Barbara — February 1-2, 2011 — University of Southern California / Reagan Presidential Library - Reagan Centennial Academic Symposium
- Washington, DC — January 19, 2011 — John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - 50th Anniversary of JFK Presidency - Panel Discussion
- Miami, FL — November 21, 2010 — Miami Book Fair, Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College @ 1:30 pm
- Los Angeles — November 6, 2010 — Australia Today Show live interview
- New York City — November 5, 2010 — Charlie Rose Show taped interview (aired November 10, 2010)
- Los Angeles — November 1, 2010 — Signing at BookSoup @ 7:00 PM
- Washington, DC — September 15, 2010 — Air Force Association
- Washington, DC — June 11, 2010 — Fox Hill Retirement Community (Politics & Prose sells) - talk/Q&A/signing @ 4 PM
- Washington, DC — June 10, 2010 — Treasury Executive Institute (Politics & Prose sells) - talk/Q&A/signing @ 1 PM
- Washington, DC — June 10, 2010 — Treasury Department Education Institute @ 12:30 pm
- Pacific Palisades, CA — May 3, 2010 — Signing at Village Books @ 7:30 pm
- Los Angeles, CA — April 24, 2010 — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Haines Hall
- Pasadena, CA — April 8, 2010 — Signing at Vroman's Bookstore @ 7:00 pm
- Boston, MA — March 31, 2010 — Mass. Institute of Technology "Modern Space Science and Engineering seminar" - talk/Q&A/signing
- Dallas, TX — March 18, 2010 — The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture (books purchased from S&S) - talk/Q&A/signing @ 6 PM
- Dallas, TX — March 17, 2010 — Frontiers of Flight Museum - talk/Q&A/sign @ 7 PM
- Boston — February 21, 2010 — The Great Fenway Park Writers Series - talk/Q&A/signing @ 12 noon
- Los Angeles — February 5, 2010 — Vroman's Books - talk/Q&A/signing, 7 PM
- San Francisco — January 21, 2010 — Commonwealth Club - talk/Q&A/signing @ 7 PM
- Los Angeles — January 19, 2010 — USC Annenberg School of Journalism - luncheon/talk/Q&A/signing @ 12 Noon
- New York — January 14, 2010 — New York Historical Society - in convo with Lesley Stahl/signing @ 6:30 PM
- Philadelphia — January 13, 2010 — National Constitution Center - talk/Q&A/signing @ 6:30 PM
- Washington, DC — January 12, 2010 — National Archives - talk/Q&A/signing @ 11:30 AM
- San Diego — January 8, 2010 — San Diego City Club - talk/Q&A/signing @ 12 noon
- Denver — January 7, 2010 — Denver Forum - talk/Q&A/signing @ 12 noon
- Los Angeles, CA — November 7, 2009, 9:45 am — "Global Communication Leadership Forum: "Obama's Afghanistan: The Media and the War" Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, 134 West Adams Blvd
- Tempelhof Airport, Berlin — April 23, 2009 — "The Berlin Airlift and American Politics."
- Los Angeles, CA — April, 25 2009 — Los Angeles Times Book Fair
- New York , NY — February 11, 2009; 7:30 p.m — Kingsborough Community College
- Denver, CO — August 26, 2008; 2-3:30 p.m — Denver Art Museum — keynote speaker, "Politics and the Media: Bridging the Political Divide in the 2008 Elections."
- Grand Forks, ND — September 26, 2008 — University of North Dakota School of Law
- Moraga, CA — October 8, 2008 — St. Mary's College
- New York, NY— October 25, 2008 — New York Historical Society — Kennedy and Nixon "If I'm Elected"
- Paris, France — June 4, 2008 — American Library of Paris
- New York, NY — May 14, 2008: — The Harvard Club, West 44th St.
- Boston, MA — May 2, 2008: — Fenway Park; The Great American Writer Series
- Los Angeles, CA — April 26-27, 2008: — Los Angeles Times Book Fair
- Hoboken, N.J. — March 7, 2008: — Stevens Institute of Technology: "A Force of Nature: Ernest Rutherford and the Discovery of the Atom"
- Rancho Mirage ,CA — February 29, 2008: — Rancho Mirage Public Library "Meet the Author"
- Los Angeles, CA — January 30, 2008: — Los Angeles Public Library "Aloud " series
- Stanford University — January 23, 2008: — 5 p.m., Stauffer Auditorium of the Hoover Institution
- Denver, CO — January 17, 2008: — Denver Forum
- San Diego, CA — January 16, 2008: — San Diego City Club
- Berlin, Germany — January 9, 2008: — John F. Kennedy Center of the Free University of Berlin
- Eastern Kentucky University — October 30, 2007: Reeves will speak on "Presidential Character" at Eastern Kentucky University on October 30. The event will be held in the Grand Reading Room of the Crabbe Library at 7 p.m.
- Berlin, Germany — September 17-19, 2007: — Richard Reeves is the current Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin. He will be speaking on "The Making of the President, 2008" at the Academy on September 17 at 8 p.m. He will speak on "The American Presidency" at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies on September 19.
- Bridgehampton, NY — August 25: Hampton Library @ 5:00 PM
- Durham, NC — Sunday, April 30: North Carolina Festival of the Book, Duke University
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005 - Fri, Apr 29, 2005:
"Richard Nixon as Commander-In-Chief: The History of Nixon and Vietnam"
Richard Nixon Library (Thu) and Whittier College (Fri)
Ronald Reagan Book Tour
- Los Angeles, CA — Saturday, April 29 - Sunday, April 30: Los Angeles Times Book Fair
- Boston, MA — Friday, April 14: The Great Fenway Park Writers Series, Fenway Park
- Corona, CA — Tuesday, April 4: Corona Public Library
- Washington, DC — Thursday, March 30: George Washington Hospital: Commemoration and discussion of the 25th anniversary of the attempted assassination and medical recovery of President Reagan.
- New York, NY — Thursday, March 23: University Club
- Miami, FL — Tuesday, March 21: Books & Books
- Los Angeles, CA — Thursday, March 16: Plato Society
- Philadelphia, PA — Tuesday, February 21: University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School with Professor David Eisenhower.
- Boston, MA — Monday, February 20: President's Day lecture at Kennedy Library: "My Three Presidents: Reagan, Kennedy and Nixon."
- New York, NY — Friday, February 17: Charlie Rose Show
- Palm Springs, CA — Wednesday, February 15: Peppertree Books @ 7:00pm
- Simi Valley, CA — Wednesday, February 8: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library @ 5:00pm
- Los Angeles, CA — Tuesday, January 31: Reception & Booksigning at University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA — Thursday, January 26: Duttons Bookstore
- Denver, CO — Wednesday, January 25: TBA
- Washington, DC — Thursday, January 19th: Reading at Politics & Prose
- Chicago, IL — Thursday, January 19: Luncheon at Union League Club
- Chicago, IL — Wednesday, January 18: Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs
- Los Angeles, CA — Tuesday, January 17: LA Public Library @ 7:00pm
- Yorba Linda, CA — Monday, January 16: Nixon Library
- San Diego, CA — Thursday, January 12: The City Club and San Diego Public Library's Great American Writers Series
- New York, NY — Friday, January 6: Today Show, NBC
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Fri, Feb 18, 2005
Keynote speech, North Carolina Press Association Banquet . Duke University hosts the North Carolina Press Association Banquet.
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Thu, Feb 3, 2005 - Fri, Feb 4, 2005
"The Legacy of Watergate: Opening the Woodward and Bernstein Papers."
The University of Texas at Austin presents the opening of the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers and the symposium "The Legacy of Watergate: Opening the Woodward and Bernstein Papers." The papers were opened to researchers, scholars and the public at The University's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 4. Select items from the papers will be on display on the first floor of the Ransom Center through Sunday, Feb. 27 and an online exhibition is available on the Ransom Center web page.
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Mon, Nov 22, 2004
"US Presidential Elections 2004: How did It Happen and What Does It Mean?"
In the last in a series of three lectures at CECI on the Presidential Election Process, Richard Reeves discussed the results of the US Presidential Elections both from the point of view of why the winner was elected and what his election means for the United States and international politics. Presented by: The Center for the Study of International Communications and The International Communications Department of The American University of Paris.
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Thu, Oct 28, 2004
"The Art of News"
Newsweek presents "The Art of News" with Richard Reeves and Carl Bernstein at the 45th Street Theatre.
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Sat, Oct 23, 2004
"Peshawar, Pakistan and My Three Presidents."
Richard Reeves interweaves commentary about presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan with recollections of life on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and observations on U.S. relationships with that region of the world.
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Mon, Oct 11, 2004
"Campaign X-Ray, 2004: Stripping the Surface Off the Bush-Kerry Race, and What's at Stake."
The New York Observer hosts post-Presidential debate political roundtable, featuring Mario Cuomo, William Weld, David Boies, Kieran Mahoney, John Ellis and Howard Wolfson, and moderated by acclaimed presidential historian Richard Reeves. The panel examines the tactics, issues and stakes of the Presidential race, as it stands between the second and third debates.
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Lock Up Washington
SIENA, Italy — Here's a modest idea to break the gridlock, the stupidity, the meanness, the partisan lying and irresponsible ineffectiveness of modern Washington. We should consider returning to the Middle Ages.
Column Archive
We Are Family
LOS ANGELES — Just about 30 years ago, I wrote a "Reporter at Large" article for The New Yorker magazine about Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living, illegally and legally, in Southern California. The Mexican and Chicano population of Los Angeles was the second-largest Mexican city in the world, behind only Mexico City itself.
Bipolar Nation: The Rich Get Richer
LOS ANGELES — Times are tough. Do the numbers: Chief executive officers (CEOs) of the country's biggest companies experienced pay increases of a minuscule 15 percent in 2012, compared with the 28 percent their pay rose in 2011.
Leaving Behind Our Loyal Afghans
LOS ANGELES — A very wise man, Harvard philosopher George Santayana, said more than a hundred years ago: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The Next Big Issue: Work
LOS ANGELES — When ATMs, the cash machines, began to appear on the outside walls of banks in the 1970s, I refused to go near them. My mother was a teller at the Trust Company of New Jersey on Journal Square in Jersey City, and I knew the machines were designed to eliminate her job.
A New American Rebellion, Part II
LOS ANGELES — I thought I had said all I had to say last week about the accelerated change in American attitudes toward gay marriage and "illegal" immigration. But there are a lot of other folks out there examining the accelerated politics of the day and generally coming to the conclusion that, after years of moving right, Americans are moving left again.
A New American Rebellion
LOS ANGELES — As the Supreme Court debated last week over the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 17-year-old law barring same-sex marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia noted the number of states that are permitting gays and lesbians to marry. "There has been a sea change," he said, "between now and 1996."
Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
LOS ANGELES — If you Google "Afghanistan," you get your choice of occupiers. There's "Occupation of Afghanistan by British," "Occupation of Afghanistan by Russians" and "Occupation of Afghanistan by United States."
As Goes Los Angeles, Comes Nobody
LOS ANGELES —- "What if they gave an election and no one came?" That's a paraphrase of a war or anti-war cry of the 1960s. More than 40 years later in Los Angeles, the nation's second city, the cliche came alive in reports of last Tuesday's municipal election, where turnout has dropped to 16 percent, half the number of people who turned out for local elections only eight years ago.
The American Way Of Work
LOS ANGELES — I do have an office, at the University of Southern California, but except for actually teaching, I have been working at home for most of my life. Naturally, I'm interested in the controversy generated by Marissa Mayer, the new boss at Yahoo, when she ordered all that company's employees to report to a regular company office.
Are Republicans Going The Way Of The Whigs?
LOS ANGELES — If I were a Republican activist, I think I would give up reading political journalism for a while. I might even turn to reading history, say the history of whatever happened to the Whig Party.
Obama Is Making More Sense Than The Loyal Opposition
LOS ANGELES — President Obama said "jobs" 47 times in his State of the Union message last Tuesday night, so we know what's on his mind.
Why Ed Koch Never Became President
LOS ANGELES — I was standing in line for a movie years ago on Lexington Avenue in New York, when an unmistakable voice came from near the front of the line. "Hey, Dick! Hey, Dick! It's Ed Koch!" Who else? He kept on speaking at the top of his voice — he did not have a bottom — over a couple of dozen people, asking me or telling me about some problem at City Hall or maybe complaining about the newspaper, The New York Times, of which I was then City Hall bureau chief.
What Is Real And What Is Reality
LOS ANGELES — The 30th president of the United States, who was not such a bad guy, sometimes seems to be remembered only for a single quote: "The business of America is business."
10,000 Days With Catherine O'Neill
LOS ANGELES —- When I saw my friend Avery Corman, the novelist, for the first time after his wife, Judy, died eight years ago, I was, of course, at a loss for words. I blurted out the first thing that came into my head: "How's your work going?"
An American Story: Daniel Inouye
LOS ANGELES — On Feb. 1, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially signed an order allowing Japanese-Americans to fight in the U.S. Army. Only a year earlier, the same president had signed an executive order to evacuate 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans living near the West Coast into "relocation camps" in desolate, barren areas from east of the Sierra Nevada to Arkansas.
'Which Side Are You On, Boys?'
LOS ANGELES — Is there a wave of nostalgia for the 1930? I wouldn't have thought so, at least not until the Republicans of Michigan passed the bucket of anti-union legislation last week. The procedure they used to pass "right-to-work" was pretty sneaky: no hearings, no public readings, voting by a lame-duck legislature and signature by a governor who had given the impression that such doings and law were not part of his agenda.
The Making Of The President: 2062
LOS ANGELES —- It was Yogi Berra who supposedly said, "It's very hard to predict things, especially about the future." But then he also said, "I never really said all the things I said." He even talked about politics and the presidency: "You know Texas has a lot of electrical votes."
The New Century Of Women
LOS ANGELES — I did not always agree with her politics and most of her policies, but I must say that I always felt a thrill when I saw television pictures of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving in some capital, the name of which most Americans could not pronounce. This gigantic jet would roll to a stop and various local leaders would stand in all their military finery at the base of the stairs. The door to the big bird would swing open and out would pop what the Irish would call "this mere slip of a girl."
It's A Brave New (political) World
LOS ANGELES — The 2012 election is all over but the shouting, and the shouting this time seems extraordinarily loud and revealing of the future of American politics.
The Election -- In A Word
LOS ANGELES — Mike Allen, for those who don't know, is Washington's insiders' insider. Every morning, sometimes as early as 4 a.m., the Politico.com editor sends out, via e-mail, a newsletter called the Political Playbook, a heads-up for the capital's political junkies.
Time To Play The Race Card -- Again!
LOS ANGELES — It was a dark and stormy night over most of the Eastern states, and all through many houses, not a creature was stirring. Water rushed around and nasty politics were forgotten for a bit. In New Jersey, the sting-tongued Republican governor, Chris Christie, said only good words about Democratic President Barack Obama and the federal response to the hurricane invasion of his state. It seems the president called him at midnight Monday and said: "Anything you need. Just call."
The Final Days Of A Bad Campaign
WASHINGTON — Beneath his cool exterior, there is passion and a trash-talking crudeness hidden in President Obama.
The Next America
LOS ANGELES — Assuming that neither man faints on the stage at their final debate on Monday, the Obama-Romney race now depends on three smoking guns rarely discussed by candidates: geography, demography, and getting out the right vote.
So Romney Lies — So What? Who Cares?
LOS ANGELES — For at least the last couple of decades, the Republican Party has been anti-modern, but Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president, is modern, even post-modern. I don't mean that as a compliment. The man is a serial liar in a society that increasingly tolerates lying and cheating.
What Did He Say? Never Mind
LOS ANGELES — Score one for Mitt Romney, at least on style. He did what he had to in the Denver debate, though truth was not his strongest suit. President Obama barely showed up, but he was, overall, a good deal more truthful, especially when he said he'd rather be home celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary.
The 'Unloved America'
LOS ANGELES — While President Obama was talking tough at the United Nations and being charming "eye candy" with Barbara Walters and her gang on "The View," the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair, was being wise on a round of appearances on American political shows. His message: "The United States ... should sort of give up on being loved."
