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Prize-winning author to speak Sept. 9

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam will discuss "War and the Modern Presidency" Sept. 9 in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues series.

Halberstam's talk begins at 8 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. It is the ninth annual Governor's Lecture in the Humanities and is the first of five lectures in the 2004-05 Thompson Forum series, "The United States in a Divided World." The lecture is free and open to the public. Ron Hull, former longtime programming director at Nebraska Education Television, will give a pre-talk beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied's Steinhart Room.

The author of 19 books and a prolific writer of magazine articles, Halberstam won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Vietnam War for The New York Times. A legendary figure in American journalism, he first came to national prominence in the early 1960s as part of a small group of American reporters who refused to accept the U.S. government's optimism about the Vietnam War and reported that the war was being lost. Halberstam's landmark trilogy of books on power in America, The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be and The Reckoning, helped define the latter part of the 20th century and won innumerable awards and broad critical acclaim.

Halberstam's lecture is presented by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the Thompson Forum and University of Nebraska Central Administration. It will be broadcast live on the UNL Web site at , UNL radio station KRNU (90.3 FM) and Channel 21 on Time Warner Cable television in Lincoln.

The Thompson Forum, a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center and UNL, has a mission of promoting better understanding of world events and issues to all Nebraskans.


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