Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/10/2015
12:00 pm-1:30 pm

Location
Denver Athletic Club - Ballroom

Address
1325 Glenarm Place
Denver


CurtSmith-bookTuesday, March 10, 2015
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Curt Smith – Author & Presidential Biographer

12-Noon Luncheon
Denver Athletic Club – Grand Ballroom
1325 Glenarm Place

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George H.W. Bush – Character at the Core

LINCOLN, Neb. (Dec. 12, 2014) -Speechwriter Curt Smith worked closely with George
H.W. Bush during and for many years after his 1989-93 Presidency, including writing
more speeches than anyone for Bush as president. Now, in George H.W. Bush:
Character at the Core (November  15, 2014), Smith explores how Bush negotiated the
fraught world of politics and shows how the president’s lifelong courtesy and belief in
work, religion, and American exceptionalism helped him connect with Middle America
and take his place among the most revered statesmen of his time.

Smith’s biography includes in-depth narratives on the invasion of Panama, the first
Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Iron
Curtain. He also chronicles the contrasting presidential elections of 1988 and 1992,
examining the successes and failures of each. Alongside these accounts of Bush’s
presidential career are details of his life and work outside the White House, including
profiles of influential figures in his life such as his wife, Barbara, mentors such as
Ronald Reagan, men such as Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and John Connally, and
political allies such as Margaret Thatcher, creating an important wide-lens view of
George H.W. Bush.

“Curt Smith was a key member of President George H.W. Bush’s talented
speechwriting team, and his account of the Bush Administration has the ring of truth.
But the author has something more in mind,” said William F. Gavin, former
speechwriter for President Nixon. “Smith, from a small upstate New York town,
ignored the stereotypes of a patrician Bush and discovered the decent, caring,
compassionate, highly competent man this war hero was (and is). . . . Values matter.
Character counts. That is the message at the heart of this excellent book.”

Kirkus Reviews called George H.W. Bush: Character at the Core an “endearing look
at a president the nation is finally beginning to understand and appreciate.” Thomas
DeFrank of National Journal said the book is “required reading for anyone seeking
to discover the real Bush 41. It builds a compelling case that 41 may have been the
most successful one-term President in American history.” Pollster John Zogby said,
“Would that we all had Curt Smith write our biography. Truth is told, always poetically.
Smith is a master of the language.”

As speechwriter, Smith wrote such Bush addresses as the 50th anniversary of Pearl
Harbor speech, the “Just War” address, and later his moving eulogy to Ronald
Reagan. Smith is currently a senior lecturer of English at the University of Rochester
and a GateHouse Media columnist. He is the author of sixteen books, including the
classic Voices of The Game, and has written for such publications as Newsweek, the
New York Times, Reader’s Digest, and the Washington Post. Smith has been named
to the prestigious Judson Welliver Society of former presidential speechwriters.

For more information about George H.W. Bush: Character at the Core, visit
potomac.presswarehouse.com.

About the University of Nebraska Press

Founded in 1941, the University of Nebraska Press is a nonprofit scholarly and
general interest press that publishes 170 new and reprint titles annually under the
Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac Book imprints, and in partnership with the
Jewish Publication Society, along with 30 journals. As the largest and most diversified
press between Chicago and California, with 3,000 books in print, the University of
Nebraska Press is best known for publishing works in Native studies, history, sports,
anthropology, and geography, American studies and cultural criticism, and creative
works. For more information, visit nebraskapress.unl.edu.

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