We held our third-annual fundraiser, Evening at the Square, featuring David Frum on May 2, 2018. The night included a conversation with Frum, heavy hors d’oeuvres, an autographed copy of Frum’s latest book, TRUMPOCRACY, and all the civility you could give and take!
Pulitzer Prize winner and Kansas City Star Editorial Page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson and APS Founder Allan Katz moderated the discussion.
David Frum is a senior editor at the Atlantic. From 2014 through 2017, he was chairman of the board of trustees of the leading UK center-right think tank, Policy Exchange. In 2001-2002, he served as speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush; in 2007-2008, as senior adviser to the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign. Frum is the author of nine books, most recently TRUMPOCRACY: The Corruption of the American Republic (HarperCollins, 2018). His first book, Dead Right, won praise from William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing intellectual experience in a generation” and from Frank Rich in the New York Times as “the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement.” In the National Review, John Podhoretz hailed Frum’s history of the 1970s, How We Got Here, as “an audacious act of revisionism, written in a voice and style so original it deserves to be called revolutionary.” Arianna Huffington said of Frum’s 2012 novel, Patriots, “David Frum is someone who fearlessly speaks his mind, regardless of where the chips may fall, so it’s no surprise he’s able to convey so much truth in his fiction.” Frum’s memoir of his service in the George W. Bush administration, The Right Man, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.