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TITLE: Haynes Johnson: 2009 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Haynes Johnson
EVENT DATE: 09/26/2009
RUNNING TIME: 31 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Haynes Johnson appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Haynes Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a best-selling author and a television commentator. He has reported on every president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bill Clinton. In 1966 Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished national reporting of the civil rights struggle in Selma, Ala. Haynes Johnson is the author of national best-sellers such as "Sleepwalking Through History," "The Bay of Pigs" and "The Landing," his first novel. Johnson's latest work is "The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election" (2009), which he wrote with Dan Balz.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2009