James B. Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author,
attorney and editor-at-large of Smart
Money, will speak on “The Call to Duty: Leadership After September 11 and
EnRon” on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union College.
His talk, which
opens Union College's Perspectives at the Nott lecture series,
is free and open to the public.
A contributor to the New
Yorker, and formerly page one editor of The
Wall Street Journal, is the author of the national bestsellers Blind Eye, an investigation of the
medical profession, Den of Thieves,
about Wall Street in the '80s, and Blood
Sport, about the Clinton White House.
Stewart is the recipient of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal articles on the
1987 stock market crash and the insider-trading scandal. As a reporter at The Journal, he covered the Milken and
Boesky scandals, the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s and the world
of investment banking and the stock market.
Stewart, who is also a columnist for Common Sense and SmartMoney.com, combines investigative skills with
a novelist's style and sensibility. With years of experience covering Wall
Street and Washington, Stewart will weave together themes from his new book, Heart
of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11, and the erosion
of the recent corporate scandals. His book recounts the life of Rick Rescorla,
a Vietnam war hero and head of security for Morgan Stanley who lost his own
life on September 11, 2001,
while saving 3,700 World Trade
Center employees under his watch.
Other speakers in the Perspective at the Nott series are:
Journalist and author Laurie Garrett on “The
Betrayal of Trust,” Tuesday, Oct. 15; and
Terry Gross, host of NPR's “Fresh Air” on “All I
Did Was Ask: An Evening with Terry Gross,” Wednesday, Nov. 13.
All talks are at 7:30 p.m.
in the Nott Memorial. A free reception follows each talk.
For more information,
call 388-6131.