Race Across the Decades

Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

Description:

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind traces race relations across the 25 years since his signature best-seller, A Hope in the Unseen -- following an impoverished student across three years from the inner city to the Ivy League -- was published, acclaimed and widely embraced. The book, a favorite of three successive Presidents (Clinton, Bush, Obama), became a Rorschach for America’s racial struggles...but it is not a book Mr. Suskind could write in these times. What has changed? And are those changes best for advancing equality in America? Ron Suskind will report from the epicenter of the issues on race and equality. (Copies of A Hope in the Unseen, now being produced for Broadway, will be available.)

Presenter: Ron Suskind is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. Writing for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000, he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen, that chronicles the journey of a student who aspired to escape his “blighted D.C. upbringing” and attend an Ivy League university. He has written four other books about national politics and issues related to the United States’ use of power: the Price of Loyalty, on the two-year tenure of George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill; the New York Times Best Seller, The One Percent Doctrine, about the Bush administration’s foreign policy after 9/11, driven by Vice President Cheney’s focus on terrorists and rogue states’ access to nuclear weapons; The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, about the struggles of individuals in the U.S. government and elsewhere around the world to combat nuclear terrorism; and, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, that describes the 2008 financial crisis and President Obama’s White House efforts to address it. His memoir Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism became an Emmy Award winning, Academy Award-nominated feature documentary

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