Brinkley’s lecture, as the Honors Eccles Visiting Professor, will open the fifth annual Utah Construction/Utah International Symposium, “Building America’s Defense: 1939 1975.” A reception and book signing at 6 p.m. in the Dumke Family Atrium will precede the lecture. The presentation is free to the public.
Brinkley is a professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University in New Orleans. Having been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Brinkley recently signed a deal to write a book about the region’s experiences with the storm and its aftermath.
The author of many nonfiction books, Brinkley is specially noted for “Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years”; “Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal;” “The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House”; “John Kerry and the Vietnam War” and “Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress.” Brinkley is also editor of “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947 1954.”
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