Distinguished author and journalist Bob Woodward will deliver the 2007 Wilson W. and Anne D. Wyatt Lecture on Tuesday, March 20 at Bellarmine University. Woodward’s lecture, “State of Denial” will begin at 7 p.m. in Knights Hall on Bellarmine’s campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required, and seating will begin at 6 p.m.
Woodward is best known for teaming with Carl Bernstein to break the Watergate story in The Washington Post. While reporting on a burglary at the Watergate office building that most media outlets largely ignored, Woodward and Bernstein uncovered a scandal that led to prison sentences for several White House staff as well as the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Their investigative research led to The Post’s winning of the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for reporting the Watergate scandal. Their work also is credited with inspiring a new generation of investigative reporters. In 2002, Woodward’s reporting on the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks helped land another Pulitzer for The Washington Post.
Woodward also is an accomplished author and has written 10 number one national best-selling non-fiction books: All the President’s Men, The Final Days (both co-written with Bernstein), The Brethren, Wired, Veil, The Commanders, The Agenda, Bush At War, Plan of Attack and, most recently, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. The final three books all detail the George W. Bush administration, and Woodward has been called the journalist with the most access to Bush, logging more than seven hours of one-on-one interviews with the President.
Following the lecture, Woodward will conduct a book signing, and copies of State of Denial will be available for purchase.
Woodward’s lecture will be the 13th in the Wyatt Lecture Series. Wilson W. Wyatt and his wife, Anne, founded the series in 1990 to bring to Bellarmine and the Louisville community speakers of national and international prominence in the area of politics and government. Past lecturers include former prime minister of the United Kingdom Sir Edward Heath, television news journalist Andrea Mitchell, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Seymour Hersh. For more information, please visit the Wyatt Lecture Series Web site.