Wed., March 2, two events with
Trustee Mort Kondracke '60, Editor and Columnist, Roll Call
Lunch with a Dartmouth Trustee, 12:30-1:30 pm, Morrison Commons. Sign up:
https://lunchmortkondracke.eventbrite.com
Public talk: “Jack Kemp, 2016 and the Future of American Politics,"
4:30 pm, Haldeman 041. Followed by book signing of Jack Kemp, the Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center is proud to welcome Dartmouth alum and Trustee Morton Kondracke ’60 to discuss Jack Kemp and how his ideology may help turn the country away from such extremism. He will in particular
focus on specific policies Jack Kemp suggested, and how those may help America revive growth, family prosperity and national morale.
Who is Mort Kondracke '60?
Mort Kondracke has been a national journalist for 45 years, the last 22 years as an editor at Roll Call, the newspaper affiliate of The Economist covering the U.S. Congress. His book,
Jack Kemp, the Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America, co-authored by Fred Barnes, was published in 2015.
Previously, he was the Jack Kemp Scholar at the Library of Congress, a senior editor at The New Republic, Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, and a Wall Street Journal columnist. He was a regular commentator at Fox News and on The McLaughlin Group and on ABC's
This Week. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard from 1973-74, he has also frequently appeared on Meet the Press and NPR and was a panelist in the 1984 presidential debate. He is on the boards of the Founders Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, Parkinson's Action
Network, and is author of Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease, subject of a CBS Sunday Night Movie.
As an undergraduate, Kondracke was president of The Dartmouth. He received his AB in English in 1960. He was a board member of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and served as his class secretary. He received the Daniel Webster Award for Public Service from the
Dartmouth Club of Washington. Kondracke has two daughters, Alexandra '91, a Hollywood filmmaker, and Andrea, a New York physician.