September 19, 2001

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: September 19, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Author Robert Dallek will give a talk titled “The

Transformation of the American Presidency: From TR to George

W. Bush” at 8:15 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28 at Middlebury

College. The event, the 26th annual Charles S. Grant

Memorial Lecture, will take place in Mead Chapel on Hepburn

Road off College Street (Route 125). The lecture is free and

open to the public.

Middlebury

College Professor of History Travis Jacobs said, “We’re

excited and honored to have Robert Dallek speak here at

Middlebury. His book, ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt and American

Foreign Policy,’ is considered the foremost book on the

subject.”

Dallek is

also the author of a number of other books, including

“Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism,” and “Lone Rising

Star” and “Flawed Giant,” a two-volume biography of Lyndon

Johnson. He has served as the Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at

University College in London and the Harmsworth Professor at

Oxford University. Dallek has held Guggenheim, Rockefeller

Foundation, and American Council of Learned Society

Fellowships.

The Grant

Memorial Lecture was established in honor of the late

Charles S. Grant, a member of the Middlebury College history

department for several years prior to his untimely death in

1961. Previous speakers who have delivered the Grant

Memorial Lecture, which maintains a focus on American

history, range from David McCullough, author of the

bestselling biography “John Adams,” to Arthur M.

Schlesinger, Jr., who served from 1961-1963 as special

assistant to President John F. Kennedy.

For more

information, contact Travis Jacobs in the history department

of Middlebury College at 802-443-5315.