Jonathan Kaufman – 2026-2027 Author Series
November 18 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Jonathan Kaufman – 2026-2027 Author Series
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Join us as we welcome Jonathan Kaufman discussing his book When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country–and Led Us to Today.
The panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthand.
Jonathan Kaufman has written and reported on China for thirty years for The Boston Globe, where he covered the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square; The Wall Street Journal, where he served as China bureau chief from 2002 to 2005; and Bloomberg News. He is the author of A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe and Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. He is the director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.
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