The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation welcomes actor, writer, lawyer and commentator Ben Stein to deliver the Reagan Forum on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $45 per person and include dinner. To reserve your seats, please visit www.reaganfoundation.org/cpa or call 805-522-2977.

Ben Stein attained early success as a speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field, becoming an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host. Mr. Stein also frequently writes commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors. Prior to his presidential speechwriting, Mr. Stein was a poverty lawyer and then a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Stein’s columns can currently be read in The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. He has written, co-written and published thirty books, including seven novels, largely about life in Los Angeles, and twenty-one nonfiction books, about finance and about ethical and social issue in finance, and also about the political and social content of mass culture.

He is also an extremely well known actor in movies, TV, and commercials. His part of the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was recently ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film.

Did the Stimulus Bill stimulate the economy? Once the federal law was implemented in February of 2009, which parts helped the economy and which parts did not? These are just a few of the topics which James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine, will explore when he delivers the Reagan Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. This lecture is free to attend; however, reservations are required. Register by calling the Reagan Foundation at 805-522-2977 or online at www.reaganfoundation.org/cpa.

James Q. Wilson, who holds the nation’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, has enjoyed an extraordinary career, including twenty-five years at Harvard University. He was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA for a decade before his appointment at Pepperdine. The author or co-author of more than fifteen books, his most recent works include The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, Moral Judgment and The Moral Sense. Others cover a wide variety of policy topics including urban problems, government regulation and bureaucracy, crime prevention, and delinquency among children.

Wilson has chaired and served on a number of national commissions including the White House Task Force on Crime, The National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention, the Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime, and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is currently chairman of the Council of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute and has served on the boards of State Farm Mutual Insurance Company and Protection One. He is also a trustee of the RAND Corporation.

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be at the Reagan Library on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 to discuss and sign copies of her two released memoirs, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family and Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me (Release date: October 12, 2010). Although the book signing is free to attend, tickets for the lecture are $75 per person, which includes a served dinner.

In Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, Dr. Rice recounts her life – from learning to swim at 25 because as a young child she wasn’t allowed in the city pool due to the color of her skin, to becoming the second woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she is recalling the poignancy of her mother’s cancer battle and the heady challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Dr. Rice holds nothing back in this remarkably candid telling. This is the story of a little girl – and a young woman – trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world and of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community, that made all the difference. In Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, Dr. Rice re-edited her memoir for a young adult audience.

Dr. Rice will be signing copies of her books from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the Library’s Museum Store. The book signing is open to anyone who wants to attend. Books must be purchased in the Library’s Museum Store to receive signature. Proceeds of the sale of books benefit the Reagan Foundation, the nonprofit organization that sustains The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the Air Force One Pavilion, the Center for Public Affairs and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center.

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Book signing at 4:00 P.M.
Lecture at 6:00 P.M.

Number one New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn will be at The Reagan Library on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 for a book signing and lecture on his latest book, American Assassin (Release date: October 12, 2010). The lecture and book signing are free to attend; however reservations are recommended to attend the lecture.

Mr. Flynn is best known for his explosive thrillers featuring CIA super-agent Mitch Rapp. In American Assassin, Mr. Flynn goes back in time to introduce the young Mitch Rapp in his first assignment. In this novel, the CIA is looking for the type of man who is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform. They find him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution. As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.

Vince Flynn decided to write a book in 1990, even though he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life. Seven years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel, Term Limits. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint. Since then, his books have become perennial bestsellers in both paperback and hardcover, and he has become known for his research and prescient warnings about the rise of Islamic Radical Fundamentalism and terrorism. Read by current and former presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals around the world, Flynn’s novels are taken so seriously one high-ranking CIA official told his people, “I want you to read Flynn’s books and start thinking about how we can more effectively wage this war on terror.”

Vince Flynn will be signing copies of American Assassin from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the Library’s Museum Store. The book signing is open to anyone who wants to attend. Books must be purchased in the Library’s Museum Store to receive signature. Proceeds of the sale of books benefit the Reagan Foundation, the nonprofit organization that sustains The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the Air Force One Pavilion, the Center for Public Affairs and theWalter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center.

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President George W. Bush will address the Perspectives on Leadership Forum at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Thursday, November 18, 2010. Tickets for the lecture are $95 per person, which includes a served dinner. Signed copies of his book will be available in the Library’s Museum Store before and after the event.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of the political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America’s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.

President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.

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