An evening with Michael Beschloss, "Presidential Courage"

High Center Season Keynote Lecture, sponsored by the Office of the President

About Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian, scholar of leadership and bestselling author of 10 books, most recently the acclaimed New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller “Presidents of War.” The New York Times Book Review calls the book “a superb and important book, superbly rendered.” The Financial Times says that the book “looks at leadership from every angle” and calls it “epic” and “magisterial.” The historian Ron Chernow calls it “monumental and profoundly important.” Actor Tom Hanks says, “Once again, Beschloss captures our presidents in terms both historic and human.”

Beschloss appears regularly on television as the “NBC News” presidential historian and contributor to “PBS NewsHour.” He has also been a contributing columnist to the New York Times. He has won an Emmy for his television work and received six honorary degrees and numerous other awards. He has the largest Twitter following of any American historian, in the neighborhood of 400,000. His Twitter account appears on Time Magazine’s list of the world’s top Twitter feeds. He has served as a historian at the Smithsonian, a scholar at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow of the Annenberg Foundation. Among his earlier books are two volumes on Lyndon Johnson’s secret tapes; “The Conquerors” about Franklin Roosevelt, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust; and “Presidential Courage.” He was also co-author (with Caroline Kennedy) of the No. 1 global bestseller “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations about Life with John F. Kennedy.”

Ticket information

Ticket prices are $25 for adults; $10 for Messiah University students (with ID) and youth (18 and under). Tickets go on sale starting Sept. 1, 2023; to order, contact the Messiah University Box Office at 717-691-6036 or online.  

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