Contact: Heather Hoy, Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, (785) 864-9052.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BIOGRAPHER TO SPEAK OCT. 11 AT KU
LAWRENCE - The first man in the job as president of the United States was a man of vanity, disappointment and longing, according to Richard Norton Smith, historian and biographer.
Smith will speak on "The Surprising George Washington," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, at the University of Kansas Visitor Center auditorium, 15th and Iowa. His speech is sponsored by the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at KU.
As author of "Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation," Smith will talk about "a historical figure vastly more interesting "ยข than the marbled icon who reappears out of the historical mists each February to sell us used cars and appliances."
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