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Release
Grondahl Lecture on Teddy
Roosevelt, Albany Politics
Friends of the Libraries
to host Sept. 29 event in UAlbany�s Standish
Room
Contact: Michael Parker (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (September 16, 2004) -- Author
Paul Grondahl will speak on �Presidential Passage:
How Theodore Roosevelt Rode the Lessons of Albany
Politics to the White House� on September 29,
in UAlbany�s New Library, Standish Room, 4-6
p.m.
The event, on the uptown campus, is free and
open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Grondahl�s talk will focus on his new book,
I Rose like a Rocket: The
Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt
(June 2004), a biography of the former President.
Grondahl�s work details how the rough-and-tumble
world of Albany politics and lessons learned
by Roosevelt during his three years as a state
Assemblyman and two years as governor laid the
foundation for his presidency and reform policies
that made TR one of the most popular and enduring
presidents in American history.
Grondahl's political biography has received
excellent reviews by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
Review, and other publications. He was filmed
for C-SPAN2�s �Book TV� discussing his biography
of Roosevelt. His 1997 work on Erastus Corning,
Mayor Corning: Albany Icon,
Albany Enigma, was praised as a "minor
classic" by the New York Times Book Review.
Grondahl's book about a Catholic nun in Albany
who adopted and raised a girl with AIDS was
optioned by CBS for a made-for-TV movie. He
has been a staff writer at the Albany Times-Union
since 1984. His articles and special projects
have won a number of local, state, and national
writing prizes, including more than 20 New York
State Associated Press awards, several New York
State Publishers awards, a first- place prize
in feature writing from the American Society
of Sunday and Features Editors
and many other awards. He earned an M.A. in
English from UAlbany.
Paul Grondahl�s lecture is the first in the
fall 2004 series of �Community Conversations�
sponsored by the University at Albany�s Friends
of the Libraries. The talks are free and open
to the public. Membership in the Friends of
the Libraries is open to all who share an enthusiasm
for books and a commitment to building for the
future of the University Libraries at the University
at Albany. For more information about the Friends
of the Libraries, visit http://library.Albany.edu/friends.
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