America Presents
“Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy”
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The next American Thursday meeting will be held on December 18 at 3:00 pm. Our speaker will be Thomas L. Friedman. His topic will be “Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Thomas
L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third
Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper's foreign-affairs
columnist in 1995.
Previously, he served as chief economic
correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief
White House correspondent.
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in
1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 Mr.
Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as
Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983
Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988
Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). His book,
"From Beirut to Jerusalem" (1989), won the National Book Award for
non-fiction in 1989. His latest book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"
(2000), won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book
on foreign policy and has been published in 20 languages. He also wrote
the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am's book, "Israel: A Photobiography."
Born
in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. degree in
Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he
received a Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies
from Oxford. Mr. Friedman is married and has two daughters.
