Bob Woodward joins Judge William Bauer for Elmhurst College lecture series
One of America’s pre-eminent investigative reporters and nonfiction authors, Bob Woodward has won nearly every journalism award in the nation, including the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal.
Woodward recently was named the 2012 recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club’s most honored prize.
Growing up in Wheaton, he came to know a distinguished family friend, William J. Bauer, President Richard Nixon’s choice for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and, eventually, for a federal judgeship. Today, Bauer is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
The two old friends will reunite Thursday, May 17, at Bauer’s alma mater, Elmhurst College, to discuss issues at the heart of the American experience in democracy.
The event, “Truth and Justice in America,” is part of the Democracy Forum lecture series, the college’s yearlong examination of the democratic process and civic life.
Woodward has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the newspaper. He also has wrote or co-authored 16 nonfiction books in the past 36 years. All have been national best-sellers, including “All the President’s Men;” “The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court;” “The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House;” “State of Denial: Bush at War Part III;” and “Obama’s Wars.”
Bauer has been a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1975. Prior to that, he served on the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit and DuPage County state’s attorney.
Bauer is a graduate of Elmhurst College (Class of 1949) and the DePaul University College of Law. He has been a trustee of Elmhurst College since 1976, and over the years has given 14 lectures in the college’s Rudolf G. Schade speaker series.
“Truth and Justice in America” will begin at 7 p.m. in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel, 190 Prospect Ave. The event is free. For details, call (630) 617-3390.
Other speakers in the Democracy Forum lecture series at Elmhurst College have included cultural critic and sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin, historian and political commentator Jon Meacham, activist and author Naomi Wolf, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, national security analyst KT McFarland and acclaimed Harvard political scientist and author Robert Putnam.
If you go
If you go
What: Discussion of “Truth and Justice in America”
Who: Journalist Bob Woodward and Judge William Bauer
When: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17
Where: Elmhurst College’s Hammerschmidt Chapel, 190 Prospect Ave.
Cost: Free
Info: (630) 617-3390 or elmhurst.edu