Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series: Douglas Brinkley

On Monday, February 13, the Clinton Presidential Center hosted New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley as part of the Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series. Dr. Jay Barth, director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, moderated the conversation.

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards, museums, colleges, and historical societies.

Brinkley’s latest book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening,” chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation that quite literally saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

The Frank & Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series is presented by the Clinton Foundation, Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, and AT&T.