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Falmouth Forum Series 2007-2008
"The Media and the Presidential Campaign"
March 7, 2008 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lecture is free and open to the public.
Lance Morrow, Award-winning essayist for TIME magazine and author of eight books
Abstract:
Louis Howe, Franklin Roosevelt’s political cornerman, once remarked: “Oh, hell, it’s no trick to make a President. Give me a man who stays reasonably sober, shaves, and wears a clean shirt every day, and I can make him president.”
It’s gotten more complicated than that. Among other things, we now have a woman involved. And media that have become a decisive force. Lance Morrow, author and longtime essayist for TIME magazine, has known and written about almost every presidential candidate since John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. He offers memories, anecdotes, analysis, and cautious predictions.
Lance Morrow, born in Philadelphia in 1939, the son of two political journalists---Hugh Morrow, a Washington editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Elise Vickers Morrow, a columnist for the Knight Syndicate----was raised in Washington D.C., where his earliest political experience included delivering dishes of vanilla ice cream to Lyndon Johnson at his desk on the Senate floor during two summers as a page boy.
Morrow graduated from Harvard (magna cum laude) in 1963 and returned to Washington to work as a reporter for The Evening Star. After a year, he was hired as a writer for TIME magazine in New York. In a career at TIME that lasted over 40 years, he wrote scores of cover stories, especially on political subjects. (His first political cover story was about Ted Kennedy, published in the late sixties). As an essayist for the magazine, he won the top award in the field of American magazines, the National Magazine Award, in 1981; was a finalist for the same award in 1991, and was a winner of the award for his commentary on 9/11.
Morrow is the author of eight books of essays, history, and memoir. He is currently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce. He lives on a farm in Chatham N.Y. with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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