Historian and acclaimed author Steven Hayward, an expert on the nation's 40th president, spoke Feb. 2, 2011 on "Reagan at 100: Why the Gipper Matters for the 21st Century" as part of the 2010-11 Marshall Center Lecture Series at the University of Richmond.
Feb. 6 marked the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birth. Hayward is the author of "The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980" and "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989," a two-volume narrative history of the former president and his effect on American political life. His other books include "Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity," and "Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders."
A political commentator and policy scholar, he is the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco. He writes frequently on issues of public policy, political economy, and the environment for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and others.
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The John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship is located in Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. It encourages the development of new courses and faculty seminars about the nature and prospects of statesmanship and hosts lecturers from around the world to discuss leadership and provide diverse intellectual perspectives. Directed by leadership studies professors Gary L. McDowell and Terry L. Price, the center is advised by an international board of distinguished scholars and leaders, including honorary chair and former prime minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher.
