What: A Special One-Hour Screening of Clinton
Where: CBE
When: Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $10 Suggested Donation (we ask that you RSVP)
RSVP: Lauren Shenkman, (718) 768-3814 ext. 242, lshenkman@cbebk.org
Please join us for a special one-hour screening of the new American Experience documentary Clinton, with filmmaker Barak Goodman and a panel of distinguished guests: Josh King, former director of production for presidential events in the Clinton White House, Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel to President Clinton. The discussion will be moderated by Rabbi Andy Bachman, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim.
About the Film: “[A] biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.”
About the Filmmaker: Barak Goodman‘s films have been nominated for an Academy Award and won multiple Emmys and Writers Guild Awards, DuPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards, the RFK Journalism Prize, and twice been official selections at the Sundance Film Festival. His films appear regularly on both of PBS’s premiere series, FRONTLINE, and American Experience. His latest film, a four-hour biography of former President Bill Clinton, will air on two consecutive nights in February. Before that, My Lai won a National Primetime Emmy and a Peabody Award. Among his other credits as a producer, director, and writer are The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, A Hidden Life, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, Kinsey, The Fight, and Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. He is the co-founder with wife Rachel Dretzin of Ark Media, one of the most prolific producers of documentary films in America.
Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School. He has worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic Monthly. Lemann contributes to The New Yorker as a staff writer. He has published five books, most recently Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006); The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999), which helped lead to a major reform of the SAT; and The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), which won several book prizes.
Josh King is senior vice president, group marketing and communications, for Willis Group, the world’s third largest insurance broker. Preceding his roles in corporate communications, King worked in Washington, D.C. in government, political consulting and the private sector. From 1993 to 1997, he served as director of production for presidential events in the Clinton White House. After leaving government, King was on the team that launched the political website SpeakOut.com in the midst of the 2000 presidential election. More information is available at polioptics.com.
Bernard Nussbaum is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where, as a federal prosecutor, he tried a number of major criminal cases. He has worked as an attorney at at the firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (with time off for public service) for the last 42 years. He is one of the senior partners in the firm where he specializes in corporate and securities litigation. In 1974 he was a Senior Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee which conducted the impeachment inquiry regarding President Richard Nixon. In 1993 and 1994 he served in the White House as Counsel to the President of the United States during the first Clinton administration.
