The Library Society is honored to host David M. Rubenstein as part of the Greystar Business & Leadership Series, to speak about his recent best-seller The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians. The evening will be a spectacular event with glimpses into one of a kind conversations Rubenstein conducted with some of the most beloved and highly esteemed historians of our day. Tickets for this lecture are offered in two packages.
Package A- $30 – includes one ticket and a signed copy of Rubenstein’s The American Story.
Package B- $45 – includes two tickets and a signed copy of Rubenstein’s The American Story.
For tickets, call 843-723-9912 or click here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.
In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they’ve come to so intimately know and understand.
David McCullough on John Adams
Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson
Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton
Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln
A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh
Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King
Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson
Bob Woodward on Richard Nixon
And many others, including a special conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts
Through his popular program The David Rubenstein Show, David Rubenstein has established himself as one of our most thoughtful interviewers. Now, in The American Story, David captures the brilliance of our most esteemed historians, as well as the souls of their subjects. The book features introductions by Rubenstein as well a foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead our national library. Richly illustrated with archival images from the Library of Congress, the book is destined to become a classic for serious readers of American history.
Through these captivating exchanges, these bestselling and Pulitzer Prizewinning authors offer fresh insight on pivotal moments from the Founding Era to the late 20th century.