MFAH: Wild America with Douglas Brinkley
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) and the Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) present an evening of conversation and book signing with Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.
The program begins in the museum’s Brown Auditorium Theater as Dr. Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and a Fellow of the James Baker III Institute of Public Policy, discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s quest to conserve America’s natural heritage and how efforts to save the Katy Prairie continue in the tradition of Roosevelt’s far-seeing advocacy. Dr. Brinkley’s most recent book, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, was published in July 2009. Dr. Brinkley will be available to sign books at a post-program reception in the museum’s lobby to which all attendees are invited. The event and reception are free but we hope that you will purchase a copy of Dr. Brinkley’s book prior to the event and bring it to the meeting so that Dr. Brinkley can sign it.
Dr. Brinkley won the Benjamin Franklin Award for The American Heritage History of the United States(1998) and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot (1993). He was awarded the Business Week Book of the Year Award for Wheels for the World and was also named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Book Review, and American Heritage. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly, he is also a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Century Club. In a recent profile, the Chicago Tribune called him “America’s new past master.” He lives in Austin and Houston with his wife and three children and is currently at work on a biography of Walter Cronkite.
For more information or to register, please call KPC at 713.523.6135 or email us at info@katyprairie.org.
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Location: Brown Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH)
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