Speakers Series

2015

Authors at the Acorn, a Sunday afternoon series featuring America’s finest writers, and thinkers in conversation with topnotch journalists. The series began with Maybe Next Year, a trio of Sportswriters discussing everything sports!  Next on tap was presidential historian Rick Perlstein in conversation with Chicago broadcast journalists and news anchor Walter Jacobson discussing The Presidency and the National Agenda. The series concluded with “What Did They Do To My Book?, a conversation discussing novels that had been interpreted for the screen and television.