Young J. Edgar

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Upcoming Events

July 11, 2010: Event at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site on the Civil War 150th Anniversary.  Details coming soon. 

Spring 2010: Will lead a new Workship at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on "Narrative History and Biography: Books in Progress."  Details coming soon.

November 19, 2009: Presentation at Park Avenue Armory, New York City, on "Boss Tweed: Political Villain or Social Reformer," along with Columbia Professor or well-known NY historian Kenneth T. Jackson.


Recent Events

October 20, 2009: Seminar for TheCapitol.Net on "Understanding the Regulatory Process; Working with Federal Regulatory Agencies."

July 6, 2009: Quoted in Daily Beast article on Sarah Palin, "American History's Biggest Quitters."

June 13, 2009:  Awarded the Philip M. Stern Award by American Independent Writers (AIW) for outstanding service to AIW and the Washington, D.C. writers community, at the AIW's 30th Annual Writers Conference.

 May 29, 2009:  The BIG READ, talk on Fahrenheit 451 and Young J. Edgar,  in Stockton, California. 

March 15, 2009: The Beltway Unbuckled premiers on the History Channel (featuring Ken as a "talking head" on J. Edgar Hoover).

February 15, 2009:  C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey.  Click here for Ken's submitted list of rankings for the survey.

April 30, 2008:  Book talk, Montgomery County Library, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

April 26:  Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Infamous Lives Panel. Watch on C-Span.

April 15:  New paperback edition of Young J. Edgar, from Da Capo Press.

April 3, 2008:  Interview on NPR “Bryant Park Project” – Boss Tweed’s Birthday

March 27:  Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia.

March 25:  Interview with Gary O’Brien and Friends. WAWS radio, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

January 13, 2008: JCC of Northern Virginia, Jewish Book Festival.

October 20, 2007: Association of Trail Lawyers of America, Meadowlands Seminar,  New Jersey.

October 19: Interview with Fred Dicker, WROW, Albany, New York.

July 10:  Interview on Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, New York.

July 9:  Interview on Joey Reynolds Show, New York.

June 21: Interview on KKNW Empowerment Radio, Seattle, Washington.

June 15: Interview on KVON, Napa, California.

June 9: Washington Writers Annual Conference, Biography Panel

June 9 and 10:  C-SPAN “After Words” interview on Young J. Edgar by Joan Biskupic.

May 26: Borders Books, Albany New York, 3 p.m.

May 25: Taping for C-SPAN BookTV's "After Words."

May 25: Interview with WAMC Northeast Public Radio;

May 22: Washington Independent Writers (WIW) Pubspeak, Washington, D.C., 7 - 9 p.m.

May 14: Barnes and Noble, New York City (82nd st), 7 p.m.

May 12: Politics and Prose Book Store, Washington, D.C., 6 p.m.
                      Click here for photos of the event by photographer Bruce Guthrie.

May 10: Kick-off event for Young J. Edgar at the New York Historical Society, 6:30 p.m.

May 9: Preview talk at the New York City Bar Association, 7 p.m.

May 8: The Bob Edwards Show, XM Public Radio, 8 a.m.
                        Click here to hear the full interview.

May 2: Twenty-fifth Anniversary of J. Edgar Hoover's death in office in Washington, D.C. after 48 years as Director of the FBI.

Feb. 11: Flagler Museum, West Palm Beach, FL, Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol. (Available as Podcast.)