Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

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Join US Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley for a discussion on why Jimmy Carter is one of the great figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. He will evaluate the lasting importance of Carter’s Camp David Accords; personal diplomacy with China’s Deng Xiaoping; lifetime humanitarian work in Africa; and the sudden controversial Panama Canal treaty. Brinkley will also discuss in detail why Carter was the most successful land and water conservation president since Theodore Roosevelt. Having written a biography of Carter ‘s post White House years titled, The Unfinished Presidency, Brinkley will offer personal stories about his own experiences with the ex-president including Habitat for Humanity house builds and travels to Israel/Gaza.

Douglas Brinkley is Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and award winning author of numerous books of American History. He has written biographies of Dean Acheson, James Forrestal, Jimmy Carter, Henry Ford, Rosa Parks and Walter Cronkite, among others, and was the editor of President Ronald Reagan’s presidential diaries. He is the New York Historical Society’s official U.S. Presidential Historian. He has written many books that address political leadership and environmental concerns, including: The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America; The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960; Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America; and most recently, in 2022, Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening. He has held leadership advisory roles in support of the American Museum of Natural History, Yellowstone Park Foundation, National Audubon Society and the Rockefeller-Roosevelt Conservation Roundtable. He has edited books about Jack Kerouac and Hunter Thompson, as well as two volumes of The Nixon Tapes: 1971-72 and 1973. He has been on the Board of Trustees at Brevard College and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. He is a member of the Century Association, Council of Foreign Relations and James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He received his M.A and PhD from Georgetown University.

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