Speaker Series
Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Crusade
Mar. 31 (Thu.) 7 pm
Presentation: $15; $5 Seniors/Students/Military
Presentation and Meet & Greet (5:30-6:30 pm): $20
Speaker Series Package (all four presentations and Meet & Greets): $60
Tickets: 586.286.2222; www.MacombCenter.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Oshinsky, Ph.D., showcases one of the most significant public health successes in the nation's history, including the frantic race for a vaccine, the ethical dilemmas in human testing and the way the campaign against polio revolutionized both philanthropy and medical research in the United States.
McCarthyism to Terrorism
Apr. 14 (Thu.) 7 pm
Presentation: $15; $5 Seniors/Students/Military
Presentation and Meet & Greet (5:30-6:30 pm): $20
Speaker Series Package (all four presentations and Meet & Greets): $60
Tickets: 586.286.2222; www.MacombCenter.com
Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author and television commentator, provides an engrossing account of the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the continuing legacy of ideological polarization that impacts rational assessment and action against real threats.
The Russians are Coming! Eisenhower and the Cold War
May 5 (Thu.) 7 pm
Presentation: $15; $5 Seniors/Students/Military
Presentation and Meet & Greet (5:30-6:30 pm): $20
Speaker Series Package (all four presentations and Meet & Greets): $60
Tickets: 586.286.2222; www.MacombCenter.com
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Eisenhower, strategist and international affairs expert, award-winning author, frequent television news guest and distinguished lecturer, offers personal reflections on Ike and his presidency.
