An Evening with Thomas Jefferson

Clay S. Jenkinson with Jack Rakove

Monday, December 15, 2003 | 7:30 – 9:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

Clay S. Jenkinson began presenting Thomas Jefferson in character in 1984 and has since made presentations in nearly every state to thousands of gatherings, including school children, supreme court justices, and a gala celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth at a White House event hosted by President and Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Jenkinson is a Rhodes and Danforth scholar and winner of one of the first five National Endowment of the Humanities' highest honor: the Charles Frankel Prize (now called The National Humanities Medal).

CLAY S. JENKINSON
Clay S. Jenkinson began presenting Thomas Jefferson in character in 1984 and has since made presentations in nearly every state to thousands of gatherings, including school children, supreme court justices, and a gala celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth at a White House event hosted by President and Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Jenkinson is a Rhodes and Danforth scholar and winner of one of the first five National Endowment of the Humanities' highest honor: the Charles Frankel Prize (now called The National Humanities Medal).

JACK RAKOVE
Jack Rakove, the Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.

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