James Traub to Speak in Scarsdale

Author, journalist and foreign policy expert James Traub will speak on the impact of the election at the Scarsdale Forum's Sunday Speaker Series on Sunday December 16 at 3 pm at the Scarsdale Women's Club. Traub writes the weekly column, Terms of Endearment on foreignpolicy.com. He has written extensively about international affairs as well as national politics, urban affairs and education in the New York Times Magazine The New Yorker and elsewhere. In recent years he has reported from, among other places, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Sierra Leone, Angola, Georgia, Kosovo and Haiti. His most recent book is The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not The Way George Bush Did). In 2006 he published The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. He is currently writing a biography of John Quincy Adams. He teaches a class on American foreign policy as part of New York University's Sheikh Mohammad Scholarship Program in Abu Dhabi. He is a senior fellow of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, a fellow of the Center for International Cooperation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Scarsdale High School, Traub returns home to engage Scarsdale for a lively discussion.

Scarsdale Woman's Club
37 Drake Road
Scarsdale, New York

The Sunday Speaker Series is underwritten in part by a generous grant from the Irving J. Sloan Education Fund made possible by the
Liz Claiborne - Arthur Ortenberg Foundation.

For more information, please call: (914) 723-2829 or e-mail: office@scarsdaleforum.com or visit www.ScarsdaleForum.com