<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">From: Cambridge Forum <camforum@earthlink.net>
<br>Sent: Oct 26, 2011 2:37 PM
<br>To: "director@cambridgeforum.org" <director@cambridgeforum.org>
<br>Subject: 11/2 COLUMBUS, CAMBRIDGE FORUM
<br><br><zzzhead><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></zzzhead><zzzbody><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release Oct. 26, 2011<br> <br><br>COLUMBUS: THE FOUR VOYAGES<br><br>On November 2 , 2011 at 7 p.m. Cambridge Forum hosts Laurence Bergreen, discussing his new book, COLUMBUS: THE FOUR VOYAGES. The first major biography of the iconic 15th century explorer in more than 60 years places Columbus into the context of the Age of Discovery, demonstrating both the rewards of exploration and tragic costs.<br><br>How significant was his achievement in his own time? What accounts for his lasting fame?<br>How do we understand his ambiguous historical legacy: he founded the town of Santo Domingo yet also provoked fifty thousand natives to commit mass suicide? What role does he play in America’s founding mythology?<br><br>Laurence Bergreen is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous works of nonfiction, including Marco Polo, Over the Edge of the World, Voyage to Mars and Capone. His writing appears in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek and Esquire.<br><br>Mary Fuller moderates. A professor of literature at MIT, she has written about exploration narratives and video games, early modern circumnavigations and Renaissance narratives of travel.<br> <br>Books will be available to purchase and signing, courtesy of Harvard Book Store.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH. <br></font></font></font></zzzbody><pre>
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Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
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