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Time & Location
Jan 08, 2025, 7:00 PM
matchbox, 750 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004
About the event
Join us on January 8th at 7pm at matchbox in Penn Quarter to discuss Life After Power: Seven Presidents and their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen.
Book description:
Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right.
Life After Power tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life.Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment he included on his tombstone, unlike his presidency. John Quincy Adams served in Congress…
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