Preeminent scholars in the study of America’s Founding Era will defend their positions. Richard Brookhiser and Alan Taylor will represent Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson respectively, while Douglas Bradburn will defend George Washington, as Jeffrey Rosen moderates a Charlie Rose-style conversation with the panelists. Join us for lively and informative conversation, with ample opportunity for questions from the audience, followed by a cocktail reception in the Vaughan Lobby.
Header Image: Alexander Hamilton, by John Trumball, c. 1806, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art; George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1798, (MVLA); and Thomas Jefferson, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1821, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art
Richard Brookhiser is a journalist, biographer and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Brookhiser the National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony.
Douglas M. Bradburn is Founding Director of The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, and author of the Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union.
Alan Shaw Taylor is an historian specializing in early United States history. He is the author of a number of books about the colonial history of the United States, the American Revolution and the early American republic. Since 1995, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award for non-fiction for his work.
Jeffrey Rosen is an academic and commentator on legal affairs. Legal historian David Garrow has called him "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator" He is a professor of law at the George Washington University, and since 2013, he has served as the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
The National Constitution Center is the first and only institution in America established by Congress to “disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis in order to increase the awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.”
Parking
The theater is located in the Ford Orientation Center. Guests should park in Mount Vernon visitor lots and then proceed to the Orientation Center through the main entrance (the Texas Gate).