Images of the book cover for The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, Jeffrey Rosen, and Mary Sarah Bilder

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Lowell Lecture

The Pursuit of Happiness

Date & Time

March 13, 2024 at 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location

John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125
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Speaker(s)

Jeffrey Rosen and Mary Sarah Bilder

Presenting Organization

John F. Kennedy Library

Topics

History

Contact

Kennedy Library Forums (jfkforums@nara.gov, 617-514-1643)

Jeffrey Rosen, CEO and President of the National Constitution Center, discusses his new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, which explores what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College professor of law, moderates.

Food and drink options will be available for purchase from our JFK Café before this Forum.