EI Author Series to feature Reihan Salam

The Eisenhower Institute will host an Author Series event featuring Reihan Salam on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM at the Eisenhower Institute's office (818 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 800; Washington, DC 20006, please note that this is a new address). Salam is the co-author of Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.

Salam is currently a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.  He has previously served as an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at The New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.  He writes regularly for National Review, Forbes.com, The Daily Beast, Slate, Foreign Policy and other publications, and he is the editor of The American Scene.

In Grand New Party, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that in order to attract the working class and become "the next Republican majority," the GOP should embrace a strategy of prudent government intervention and entrepreneurship. Backing up their arguments with historical and sociological data, Douthat and Salam present a plan for the successful reconstruction of the Republican Party.

Registration is necessary to attend this event.  Please RSVP by calling the Eisenhower Institute at (202) 628-4444 or register online at www.eisenhowerinstitute.org/events.