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Monday, November 13, 2017
4:30 PM - Reception
5:00 PM - Book Talk
Mario Cuomo, governor of New York from 1983-1995, was a powerful orator and a liberal champion for the Democratic Party’s progressive legacy. He is often remembered most for what he did not become: President of the United States.
And yet, as Saladin Ambar argues in American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism, he was far more than a passing figure in American politics. Ambar contends that Cuomo was one of the most important political actors in the last quarter of the 20th century, whose career underscores a fundamental shift in both American and Democratic Party politics.
Ambar is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers and senior scholar at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.
Monday, November 13, 2017
4:30 PM - Reception
5:00 PM - Book Talk
Eagleton Institute of Politics
191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ