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Sanger at Playhouse
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:38 AM
With a national election just three months away, The New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger returns to Weston at 8 p.m. on Monday, August 11 to consider what the victor will confront on January 20, 2009. Speaking on “The Inheritance: The World the Next American President will Face,” Sanger will also take questions from what has always been an enthusiastic audience.
Sanger’s summer appearances have become a tradition in recent years, and area residents and visitors alike have flocked to hear his informed opinions and savvy insider commentary.
Given concerns about the U. S. economy and controversies over health care and immigration, as well as armed conflicts in the Middle East and tensions over terrorism and nuclear weapons, this year’s remarks should be especially fascinating.
Sanger is among this nation’s most experienced and respected journalists.
In a 25-year career at The New York Times, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, Asian affairs and, for the past eight years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he has been a member of reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Before covering the White House, Sanger wrote extensively on how issues of national wealth and competitiveness have come to redefine the relationships between the United States and its major allies.
While serving as the Times bureau chief in Tokyo, he wrote many of the first stories about North Korea’s secret nuclear weapons program in the 1990’s. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
Sanger’s many awards include the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises; the Aldo Beckman prize, awarded by the White House Correspondents Association for coverage of the presidency; and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of the emergence of a new national security strategy. In 2004 he and four other colleagues shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ top award for deadline writing, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.
Sanger appears regularly on PBS' Washington Week, Charlie Rose, Face the Nation and on National Public Radio. Twice a week he delivers the Washington Report on WQXR, the radio station of the Times. Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
His much-awaited first book, The Inheritance: The World America Now Faces , due out in January 2009, is an examination of the complex challenges that the events of the past eight years have created for the next President.
Sanger will appear exclusively in Weston for one night only. Proceeds from this special event will benefit the non-profit Weston Playhouse Theatre Company.
General admission tickets are $25, available by phone at 824-5288, online at www.westonplayhouse.org or at the Playhouse box office.
Past Sanger appearances have tended to sell out so reservations are strongly recommended.
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