Lowell Lecture
Fighting Poverty: From LBJ to Obama
Date & Time
Feb. 26, 2015
Location
John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Nicolas Lemann, Julian Zelizer, Mark Shriver, Scott Stossel, Melissa Boteach
Presenting Organization
Topics
Mark Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver; Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer, author of the recently published The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society; Melissa Boteach, Vice President of Half in Ten and the Poverty and Prosperity Program at American Progress; and New Yorker writer Nicolas Lemann discuss the legacy of the War on Poverty programs with Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic.