| VETERAN POLITICAL OBSERVER TED VAN DYK WILL SPEAK AT THE HUMPHREY INSTITUTE
 Political observer Ted Van Dyk, author of Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside (University of Washington Press 2007), will discuss his book at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, in Cowles Auditorium. He will talk about his long career as a presidential candidate adviser and offer his take on the 2008 presidential race.
Since 1960, Van Dyk has served as a senior adviser to presidential candidates Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Ted Kennedy, Mondale, Hart, and Tsongas. Van Dyk’s memoir includes several untold stories that cast fresh light on many watershed events in American history. He captures brilliant and not-so-brilliant leaders as well as politics’ darker side.
Van Dyk has been a regular contributor to national publications such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and wrote an opinion column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 2001 until 2007. In addition to being a political analyst, he enjoyed a long career in foreign policy work. Van Dyk was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other leaders of the European movement before serving at the Johnson White House as Vice President Humphrey’s senior adviser.
The event is free, but seating is limited. Please RSVP by calling (612) 625-5002. Books will be available for purchase.
January 23, 2008 |
