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Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence
February 26, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
PEN New England and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum cordially invite you to the 2012 Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence presented to Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen.
Seats are limited to two per person. Doors open one hour before the program begins. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Once the main hall is full, the event will be streamed live in an overflow theater.
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Transformed by Arts
March 4, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Authors André Dubus (Townie), Marianne Leone (Knowing Jessie), and Richard Russo, (Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool) recount how writing changed their lives.
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The Presidency of LBJ
March 26, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Marc Updegrove, director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, discusses his new book, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency with Daily Beast writer, John Avlon.
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Special Forum with Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns
March 27, 2012 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Renowned Irish tenor Anthony Kearns will perform. Program details to follow.
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PEN Hemingway Awards
April 1, 2012 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s sole surviving son, introduces the annual PEN/Hemingway Awards honoring an American author’s first published work of fiction. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s works.
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A Conversation with Madeleine Albright
April 26, 2012 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Madeleine Albright discusses her memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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Alan Brinkley on JFK
May 15, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, discusses his new biography in The American Presidents Series, John F. Kennedy: The 35th President, 1961-1963, with historian Ellen Fitzpatrick.
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David McCullough on Americans in Paris
June 7, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
David McCullough discusses his latest book, The Greater Journey, about prominent 19th-century Americans’ formative years in Paris.
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Remembering Sargent Shriver
June 16, 2012 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Mark Shriver discusses his new book, A Good Man, about his late father, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps.
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