WHAT
Presentation of
the $50,000
American History
Book Prize
at the gala
black-tie dinner
that opens the
annual
Weekend With
History
event, an
exclusive,
high-level
gathering
organized by the
Chairman $B!G
(Bs Council of
the New-York
Historical
Society.
WHO
Historian
Drew Gilpin
Faust, who
is President of
Harvard
University, will
receive the
prize in
recognition of
her book
This Republic of
Suffering: Death
and the American
Civil War.
The prize will
be presented by
Roger Hertog,
Chairman of
the Historical
Society.
WHERE
New-York
Historical
Society
170 Central Park
West
WHEN
Friday, April 3,
2009
6:00 pm:
cocktails in the
Library and
reading by Tony
Award-winning
actor Jim
Dale
7:00 pm: dinner
in the Galleries
and award
presentation
GUESTS
Expected dinner
guests include
Robert and
Ina Caro, Kyle
MacLachlan and
Desiree Gruber,
Richard Gilder,
Debby Applegate
and Bruce Tulgan,
Bunny and Bill
Beekman, Diana
and Norman
Benzaquen, Ann
and Tom
Charters,
William
Friedman, Julie
and Jim Dale,
Marjorie and
Gurnee Hart,
Victoria McManus
and John
McDermott,
Valerie Paley,
Jennifer Raab
and Michael
Goodwin, David
and Suzanne
Reynolds,
Bernard and
Irene Schwartz,
William and Fay
Shutzer, Richard
Sylla, Michael
and Leah
Weisberg.
WEEKEND
Participants in
Weekend with
History
include
David J.
Cannadine,
WITH HISTORY
Princeton
University;
Paul Kennedy,
Yale
University;
Bill T. Jones,
Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company;
George E.
Pataki; John
Steele Gordon,
author;
Pauline Maier,
MIT;
Lawrence Kudlow,
$B!H (BThe
Kudlow Report $B!I
(B; Byron
Wien, Pequot
Capital
Management;
James Chanos,
Kynikos
Associates;
Richard
Rabinowitz,
American History
Workshop; and
Louise Mirrer,
President
and CEO, NYHS
For more
information or
to purchase
tickets please
call: 212 972
2268