Berkeley Writers at Work: 2008
Fall 2008: Professor Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy
Professor Robert Reich of the Goldman School of Public Policy will be the featured writer this fall in the Berkeley Writers at Work series on October 14, 2008 from noon to one-thirty in the Morrison Library, 101 Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Reich will read from his works, be interviewed about his writing process, and answer questions from the audience.
Reich, who received his B.A. from Dartmouth and J.D. from Yale, was a Rhodes Scholar. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet; and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His commentaries can be heard weekly on public radio's "Marketplace."
Critics have given rave reviews to his books. In the May 11, 1997 San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Wick says, "At long last, a cabinet member with a sense of humor. Whether or not one agrees with Reich's politics, Locked in the Cabinet is a superb political memoir, entertainingly insightful and painfully honest." Of Supercapitalism, the News & Observer says, "Smart and provocative . . . Reich's proposed responses to supercapitalism are at once bold and surprising; [he] challenges us to think deeply about political economy."
