Release date: April 11, 2007

Historian David McCullough to Speak at Emory

Contact: Andrew Shahan,404-727-9534, ashahan@emory.edu

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough will speak on “Leadership, Ambition, and the History You Don’t Know” as the 2007 Charles R. Yates lecturer at Emory University at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPEC), 600 Asbury Circle, Atlanta. Free parking will be available in the Peavine parking deck and lot, 27 Eagle Row. For more information call 404-727-9534.

About the lecturer

David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history,” “a matchless writer.” He is twice winner of the National Book Award, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In December 2006 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. His books have been praised for their scholarship, their understanding of American life, their “vibrant prose,” and insight into individual character. Mr. McCullough’s most recent book, ”1776,” the number-one New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, has been called, “brilliant…powerful,” “a classic,” while one of his previous works, “John Adams,” remains one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read American biographies of all time.

About the lecture series

This lecture is the second in the Charles R. Yates Distinguished Lecture Series, made possible by the Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship Endowment. A 1999 Emory honorary degree recipient and Emory parent, Charlie Yates (1913–2005) was a British Amateur champion and played in the first Masters Tournament. A protégé of Bobby Jones (Emory Law School, Class of 1929), Yates was integrally involved in the formation of the Bobby Jones Scholarship in 1976. In 1993 he was appointed chairman of the Emory Committee for the Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship—a position he held for 10 years. This lecture series was instituted to serve the Emory academic community and the larger Atlanta community, and to provide an opportunity for the Bobby Jones Scholars to engage with some of the top thinkers and leaders of our time.

About the scholarship program

A prestigious overseas study award, the Bobby Jones Scholarship is awarded each year to four of Emory’s best students. They are sent to the University of St. Andrews—Scotland’s oldest, founded in 1411. Emory likewise receives four of that ancient institution’s best in return, for an academic year of residence. As an ambassadorship, the program rewards its beneficiaries for their exemplary citizenship and requires them to exert themselves while abroad as active and energetic representatives of their college and country.

Emory University is one of the nation's leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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