Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series
Michael Barone
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report, Columnist, Fox News Commentator and Author
WHEN: Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 12:00 Noon to 1:15 PM
WHERE: Pavilion Ballroom, Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201
TOPIC: "Open Field Politics 2008".
Michael Barone is Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report. Barone grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan. He was graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal.
Mr. Barone served as Law Clerk to Judge Wade H. McCree, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1981 he was a Vice President of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. From 1981 to 1988 he was a member of the editorial page staff of the Washington Post. From 1989 to 1996 and again from 1998 to the present, he has been a Senior Writer with U.S. News & World Report. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Senior Staff Editor at Reader's Digest.
Mr. Barone is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years. The first edition appeared in 1971, and the 18th edition, The Almanac of American Politics 2006, appeared in August 2005. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (Regnery, 2001; paperback edition, July 2006) and Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, 2004; paperback edition, 2005).
Over the years he has written for many other publications, including the Economist, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, National Review, the American Spectator, American Enterprise, the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times of London. His column is syndicated by Creators Syndicate and appears in the Washington Times, the New York Sun, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mr. Barone is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and has appeared on many other television programs.
Mr. Barone lives in Washington, D.C. He has traveled to all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. He has also traveled to 37 foreign countries and has reported on recent elections in Russia, Mexico, Italy and Britain.
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a public policy research institute founded in 1983 and internationally known for its studies on public policy issues. The NCPA is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an office in Washington, D.C.