UE Welcomes Best-Selling Author/Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman on November 6
Published: October 28, 2009
The University of Evansville's Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana is proud to welcome Thomas Friedman, author of the best-selling The World is Flat, to Indiana on Friday, November 6, for a two-city event in Indianapolis and Evansville.
The author, recipient of three Pulitzer Prize awards, will speak at 7:00 at The Centre in Downtown Evansville as part of the Institute’s International Speaker Series. That event will follow an appearance in Indianapolis, where Friedman will speak to a luncheon audience at the Conrad Indianapolis.
Admission to the Evansville event is free, and open to the public.
“The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana at UE is extremely excited to welcome Thomas Friedman to the Hoosier state for this two-city event,” said Robert Clark, director of the Institute and dean of UE’s Schroeder Family School of Business Administration. “Since the publication of The World is Flat, Mr. Friedman has become a leading voice on global issues ranging from economics to climate change. We look forward to hearing him share his insights into the current situation in the world with the people of Evansville and Indianapolis.”
Friedman’s latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Sept. '08), is a #1 New York Times bestseller, and The World is Flat, has sold more than two million copies. His other bestsellers include Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award.
Aside from his work as a bestselling author, Friedman has become the writer the public looks to for the straight talk and reliable information it needs about the world – especially when events seem too menacing to comprehend and policy discussions are clouded in a smokescreen of politics and posturing. Covering many of the monumental stories of recent decades, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes and been called “the country’s best newspaper columnist” by Vanity Fair. He also appears in his own segment, “Tom’s Journal,” on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and is a frequent guest on programs such as Face the Nation and Charlie Rose. His TV documentaries, “Searching for the Roots of 9/11,” “The Other Side of Outsourcing” and “Addicted to Oil,” have aired on the Discovery Channel.
