After Hillary Clinton sold out Lisner Auditorium earlier this month with an event to promote her new book, another former secretary of state is heading to campus.
Colin Powell – also a retired four-star general, former national security adviser and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – will speak at Lisner on Aug. 4. He will sit down for an interview with Frank Sesno, the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs and a former CNN special correspondent.
Clinton promoted her memoir, “Hard Choices,” at Lisner on June 13.
Copies of Powell’s memoir, “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership,” will be available for sale and signing. The book, published in 2012, outlines his time in the U.S. Army, beginning in the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps at the City College of New York, and recalls his presentation to the United Nations about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Powell, the first black secretary of state, served under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
Members of the Smithsonian Associates, the organization sponsoring the event, can purchase tickets for $35, while non-members can purchase them online for $45.
