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<div><br><p style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong> <img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs174/1102697439964/img/138.jpg" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.138" alt="Joseph Nye" height="148" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="150" align="left" border="0"> </strong></p><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>September 18 @ 7pm<br>First Parish in Cambridge, corner of Church St. and Mass Ave.<br></strong></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era*</strong></p><p style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 11pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Joseph Nye </strong>of the Harvard Kennedy School discusses leadership styles of 20th century American presidents with <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Gergen</span>. <font color="#000000" size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">At a time when leadership in Washington is under fire, Nye assesses the
effectiveness and ethics of presidential foreign policy 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? Both Nye and Gergen have advised presidents. Join us on Wednesday, September 18 and ask them your questions about our nation's current political leadership.<br><br><font size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph S. Nye Jr.</span> 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><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Gergen </span> 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.</font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="1"> </font> </font></p></div></body><pre>
Cambridge Forum
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website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
The Adventure of Ideas. The Power of Dialogue.
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