DAVID RUBENSTEIN, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle
Group; Board Chair, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
Council on Foreign Relations; Interviewer/Host, “The DAVID
RUBENSTEIN SHOW: Peer to Peer Conversations” on PBS/Bloomberg;
Author, _The American Story: Conversations with Master
Historians_Look at DAVID RUBENSTEIN’s credentials and you will see
that he is one of America’s most prominent thought leaders and
PHILANTHROPISTS. RUBENSTEIN CO-founded the Carlyle Group, an
investment firm managing $222 billion from 33 offices around the
world. His “Peer to Peer” TELEVISION INTERVIEWS HAVE FEATURED A
WIDE RANGE OF HIGH LEVEL CONVERSATIONS WITH SUCH NOTABLES AS MARC
BENIOFF, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi and Oprah
Winfrey. RUBENSTEIN IS ALSO AN ORIGINAL SIGNER OF THE GIVING PLEDGE,
a commitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals (also including
Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates) to dedicate the majority of
their wealth to giving back. RUBENSTEIN has made transformative
gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument,
Monticello, Mount Vernon, the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center,
the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library
of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and
Culture. RUBENSTEIN HAS ALSO PROVIDED TO THE U.S. government long-term
loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of
Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the
Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th amendment, the first map of the
U.S. and the first book printed in the U.S. _(Bay Psalm Book)_.
In 2013, he approached the librarian of Congress with an idea for an
event series in which members of Congress could put politics aside and
immerse themselves in the history of the nation. Thereafter began the
Congressional Dialogue series: a dinner event held several times a
year during which historic artifacts are exhibited and RUBENSTEIN
INTERVIEWS BEST-selling and award-winning authors and historians for a
congressional audience. In _The American Story: Conversations with
Master Historians_, these compelling conversations with the biggest
names in American history are presented for all: Ron Chernow on
Alexander Hamilton, Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin, Doris Kearns
Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln, Taylor Branch on the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., Chief Justice John A. Roberts Jr. on the Supreme
Court and more.
Join us for a fascinating conversation steeped in current and past
American history and get David Rubenstein’s unique take on America.
LOCATION: 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, SAN FRANCISCO
TIME: 5:30 p.m. check in, 6:30 P.M. PROGRAM
NOTES: Attendees subject to search
ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND NONREFUNDABLE.
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