Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
Symposium: Monday, October 18, 2010 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Keynote by Senator Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator for New York.
Panelists include:
Richard Ravitch, Lieutenant Governor of New York
Steven Weisman, Editorial Director and Public Policy Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and editor of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
Peter W. Galbraith, Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution
Richard K. Eaton, Federal Judge, United States Court of International Trade
Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr., Host, MSNBC’s The Last Word
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003, the Economist described him as “a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.” Steven Weisman has culled the papers of this gifted author and voluminous correspondent to create a vivid portrait of the senator’s life in Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary (Public Affairs Books, 2010).
Reception: 7:00 to 8:30 pm
The Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Co-sponsored by the American Irish Historical Society, the Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, and the Maxwell School at Syracuse University
Reservations required: 917.492.3395, e-mail programs@mcny.org.
$6 museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members
$6 when you mention the ReformNY/Brennan Center for Justice
The Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org
212-534-1672
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