Author Charles Kesler, the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, will present the free, public talk “Reconsidering the Great Society and the LBJ Presidency with Charles Kesler” on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall as part of Bucknell University’s “The ’60s at 50: Reflections on America a Half-Century Later” speakers’ series.
In addition to his teaching position, Kesler is editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He is author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism; editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding; and co-editor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought. He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling edition in the country.
Kesler will join Bucknell faculty members for a critical reconsideration of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s efforts to transform American society, economy and policy.
“The ’60s at 50: Reflections on America a Half-Century Later” series is organized by the Bucknell Project for American Leadership and Citizenship.