LIVE from NYPL, Outdoor: LIVE at Bryant Park: Kai Bird and Alexis Coe on Jimmy Carter's Unfinished Presidency
Location
This outdoor event takes place in the Bryant Park Reading Room, located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (behind the Library), near 42nd Street by the yellow umbrellas. Weather permitting.
A map of the park can be found here. There are accessible park entrances midblock on 40th and 42nd Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. To get this information via phone, please call Bryant Park at: 212-768-4242.
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In Kai Bird's new book, The Outlier, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy. His one-term presidency is often labeled a failure, but many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. Bird expertly unfolds Carter as an outlier among American presidents and his saga as a tragic tipping point in American history. He speaks with presidential historian Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin). His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Susan Goldmark.
Alexis Coe is a presidential historian and the New York Times bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of Washington, now out in paperback, and Alice+Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis, soon to be a major motion picture. Alexis was a consulting producer on and appeared in Doris Kearns Goodwin's Washington series on the History Channel, and she appears on MSNBC and CNN. She has contributed to the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many others.
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