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 the 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.