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ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Martha Raddatz will be the speaker at the Idaho Humanities Council’s 12th Annual Distinguished Humanities Lecture and Dinner on Thursday, October 23, 2008, at Boise’s Centre on the Grove. The event is made possible in part by the OfficeMax Boise Community Fund with additional support from The Idaho Statesman and Idaho Public Television. Doors open at the Grove at 6:15 p.m. for a no-host reception and silent auction and event will begin at 7:30 p.m. Benefactors are invited to a private reception starting at 5 p.m.
Raddatz is ABC’s former Senior National Security correspondent and a three-time Emmy Award winner. She’s covered national security and foreign policy for more than a dozen years and appears regularly on World News, Nightline, This Week, and Good Morning America.
Raddatz also is the author of New York Times bestseller The Long Road Home (2007), the acclaimed book written about her experiences reporting the Iraq War. It’s the story of a brutal 48-hour firefight in Sadr City that marked the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency. The book conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war on the soldiers and on families waiting back home. Raddatz’s book will be available for sale at the event, and a silent auction of rare and first edition books by different authors also will be set up in the Centre lobby, with proceeds benefitting Idaho Humanities Council programming.
Since 1997, the IHC has brought top historians and authors to Boise for the Council’s annual event. Previous speakers have included historian Stephen Ambrose (1997), western writer Ivan Doig (1998), presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin (1999), historian David McCullough (2000), journalist David Halberstam (2001), author Frank McCourt (2002), novelist John Updike (2003), presidential biographer Robert Dallek (2004), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (2005), NewsHour anchor and author Jim Lehrer (2006), and in 2007 presidential historian Michael Beschloss, all of whom have inspired audiences with personal and memorable talks that have resonated for months afterward.
