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December 07, 2007
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College will host Charles Kesler, senior fellow with The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, on Dec. 18 as part of the American Founders Luncheon Series at the Rivers Club in Pittsburgh.
Sponsored by the Center and the Pittsburgh Federalist Society, the American Founders Luncheon Series brings to Pittsburgh respected scholars on America’s founding to present talks focused on the beliefs, actions and character of those leaders who pursued a “Great Experiment” in whether humans are capable of governing themselves.
Kesler will present “The Significance of the Declaration: Inspiring Independence at Home and Abroad.” He is a professor of goverment and the director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. He received his A.B. in Social Studies and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is the editor of and contributor to “Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding” and has written extensively on American constitutionalism and American political thought.
He is co-editor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of “Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought.” His articles on contemporary politics have appeared in the “Los Angeles Times,” “The Wall Street Journal,” “The Washington Times,” “Policy Review,” “National Review” and “The Weekly Standard.” Kesler recently finished a new edition of the Federalist Papers. He is currently writing a book on the political theory and practice of the American Founders and is editing another on the polictical philosophy of American Progressivism.
The Founders Luncheon costs $17.76. To register, log onto www.grovecityconference.com/declaration. Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. The program runs from noon to 12:50 p.m. The Rivers Club is located at One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., Pittsburgh.
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