<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><b><font size="4">Cambridge Forum</font></b><br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br><i><b><font size="3">Release </font></b></i> September 6, 2013<br><br><b><font size="3">PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP and the CREATION of the AMERICAN ERA</font></b><br><br>On <b>Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m</b>. Cambridge Forum kicks off its 47th season by examining “leadership.” <b>Joseph Ny</b>e, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor discusses his newest book<i> Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era</i> with <b>David Gergen</b>. At a time when leadership in Washington is under fire, Nye assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. He identifies two main types of presidential temperaments – transformational and transactional–and argues that both types were important in the development of the nation’s international power. What lessons from the American Century can we take into the unstable international arena of the early 21st century? How does a contemporary leader work under the scrutiny of the 24/7 media and a crowd-sourced stream of commentary?<br><br>Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. In 2004, he published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, a seminal re-visioning of the ways that power is projected in international relations. His most recent book, Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era, looks at the role that presidents played in projecting national power.<br><br>David Gergen is Professor of Public Service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Few Americans have observed the ins and outs of the Washington political scene from a closer vantage point that Gergen. Over the past three decades, he has served as White House advisor to 4 presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He is a member of the Washington D.C. Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds 19 honorary degrees. Since the mid-1980s he has also followed a career in journalism, and currently appears frequently on CNN as a senior political analyst and contributes a monthly column to Parade Magazine.<br><br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited podcasts are available at www.cambridgeforum.org. Select forums can also be viewed in their entirety on YouTube.<br><br>#####<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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