Published: October 12, 2009 11:30 pm      

Woodward to speak at IUP

Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter, will be the featured speaker at the second annual First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture at IUP.

Woodward will present “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn From Presidents Past” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium.

Free tickets will be available starting Oct. 21 at Hadley Union Building ticket window or by calling (724) 357-1313.

Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal.

He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Of Woodward’s books, three have been featured on “60 Minutes,” three have been made into movies, and Newsweek has excerpted five in headline-making cover stories.

In his most recent book, “State of Denial: Bush at War Part III,” Woodward provides his story of the White House and how the Bush administration “avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress and often to themselves.”

Woodward has co-authored or authored more No. 1 national best-selling nonfiction books than any other contemporary American writer.

The lecture is presented in conjunction with IUP’s Ideas and Issues program.