Written Arts Program and Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Present

From the Oval Office to the Corner Office: What We Have Learned About Presidents and Plutocrats

On Monday, October 24, acclaimed author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, and Emmy and Peabody Award–winning former 60 Minutes producer Chris Whipple and prize-winning journalist and contributing editor at Fortune magazine Brian Dumaine will present a talk, “From the Oval Office to the Corner Office: What we have learned about presidents and plutocrats,” at Bard College as part of the John J. Curran ’75 Lectures in Journalism Series. Whipple and Dumaine will be introduced by Bard alumnus Ethan Porter ’07, author of The Consumer Citizen and associate professor of media and public affairs and of political science at George Washington University. This lecture is presented by the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs and the Written Arts Program.

Chris Whipple is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, and The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future. He appears regularly on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. A former producer for CBS News 60 Minutes, Whipple is the executive producer and writer of the Showtime film The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs, for which he interviewed every living director. His next, highly-anticipated book, is The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House will be published January 17, 2023.

Brian Dumaine is the author of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What The World’s Best Companies Are Learning From It, which has been translated into 17 languages and was called “an illuminating exploration” by the Washington Post. He is an award-winning journalist and a contributor to Fortune magazine, where he has been editing, writing feature stories, and running conferences on a broad range of business topics for the past three decades. He has served as international editor and assistant managing editor of Fortune as well as executive editor of Fortune Small Business. He is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of High Water Press, a boutique writing and editing firm that serves Fortune 500 companies.

John J. Curran ’75 Lectures in Journalism honors the memory of a proud Bardian whose dedication to ethical reporting in journalism informed a trusting readership for over a quarter of a century and promoted a culture of honesty, integrity, and truth. This event is free and open to the public.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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