Thomas Edsall, who currently writes a weekly column for The New York Times web editions, has had a distinguished career as journalist, author, political commentator, and academic. He spent 14 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, including as the paper’s congressional correspondent, before joining The Washington Post in 1981. At the Post he emerged as a leading political reporter on the national scene, with particular emphasis on social and cultural trends, demographics, racial politics, and the political impact of economic forces in society. Following his 25-year stint at the Post, Edsall taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he held the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore professorship of public affairs journalism. For the past 12 years he has been writing for the New York Times web site.

Friday, October 6 | 7:30 PM

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Edsall is the author of five books on major national trends and the underlying forces of politics, including:

●       The New Politics of Inequality (1984);

●       Power and Money: Writing About Politics (1988);

●       Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race Rights and Taxes on American Politics (with Mary D. Edsall) (1992);

●       Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (2006);

●       The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity will Remake American Politics (2012).

            Tom and Mary Edsall were Pulitzer Prize finalists in the general non-fiction category for Chain Reaction, the book they wrote together. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards and fellowships, including a Carey McWillliams Award from the American Political Science Association and a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.