VERO BEACH — Subscriptions to the 2012 Celebrated Speakers Series at the Emerson Center in Vero Beach are now available.
Speakers include Arianna Huffington on Jan. 14, Mark Shields on Feb. 4, Neil deGrasse Tyson on Feb 25, Joe Scarborough on March 10, and Bob Woodward on March 31.
Sponsored by Wilmington Trust, Celebrated Speakers Series ticket buyers have the option of subscribing to the first four speakers for $220 or all five speakers at the cost of $275.
Single tickets are $65 and will be made available for sale on Dec. 1. The 2012 series is certain to be a sell-out.
Sessions are available at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Arianna Huffington takes the podium on Saturday, Jan. 14. Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of 13 books, several of which are international bestsellers. She is also co-host of Left, Right and Center, public radio’s popular political roundtable program.
In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, acquired by AOL in early 2011, as a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely read, linked to and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.
In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2009, she was named as one of the most influential women in media by Forbes Magazine and to the Financial Times’ list of 50 people who shaped the decade.
Her latest book, Third World America, published in September 2010, chronicles the struggles of America’s besieged middle class.
Mark Shields, a nationally known columnist and commentator, follows on Saturday, Feb. 4. Shields worked in Washington through the administrations of nine U.S. Presidents.
He has covered or participated in the last 11 presidential elections, including New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
He was an editorial writer for The Washington Post where he began writing his column which is now distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.
Since 1988, Shields has provided weekly political analysis and commentary on national campaigns for the award-winning PBS NewsHour and for 17 years, Shields was moderator and panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. He now is a regular panelist on Inside Washington, the weekly public affairs show which is seen on both ABC and PBS. The Wall Street Journal has called Shields “the wittiest political analyst around” and The Washington Post has called Shields “a walking almanac of American politics.”
On Saturday, Feb 25, Neil deGrasse Tyson is scheduled as the center’s third speaker. His professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission and later to serve on a 9-member commission to study the future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry and its new space vision.
Tyson, the author of dozens of professional publications, is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates, the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium. Tyson’s latest book is the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller.
Sure to please will be Joe Scarborough appearing on Saturday, March 10. Former Congressman Scarborough (R-Fla.) is co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a show Time Magazine calls “revolutionary” and The New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. Morning Joe features interviews with top newsmakers and politicians, in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest stories, and is described by The New Yorker as “appallingly entertaining.”
Previously, Scarborough hosted Scarborough Country, a primetime news show the San Francisco Chronicle called “must-see TV.” In addition to his career in television, Scarborough was the publisher and editor of the award-winning newspaper The Florida Sun. He is also the author of The New York Times bestseller The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise, as well as the 2004 book Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day which predicted the collapse of the Republican majority and US economy due to his party’s reckless spending.
Concluding the series on Saturday, March 31 will be Bob Woodward who has won nearly every American journalism award and made crucial contributions to two Pulitzer Prizes won by The Washington Post. He was called “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever” by Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and “the most celebrated journalist of our age” by Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal. He has covered Watergate to the Supreme Court, the CIA, the Pentagon, President Clinton, the Federal Reserve, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, four books on the wars of President George W. Bush, and now the Obama administration.
He has consistently found the inside, hidden story of Washington institutions and the American Presidency. Woodward is the associate editor of The Washington Post and has authored or co-authored 16 books, twelve of which have been nonfiction national bestsellers, more than any other contemporary American author. His latest book, Obama’s Wars, published in September 2010, focuses on Obama’s critical decisions about the wars abroad and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
To purchase tickets, visit www.TheEmersonCenter.org or call the Box Office at 772-778-5249
The Emerson Center, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, is located at 1590 27th Avenue, on the SE corner of 16th Street and 27th Avenue.
