The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House

Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs, authors of The New York Times bestseller The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House, will join us on Friday, February 22 at 6:00 p.m. to discuss Reverend Graham's unique relationship with eleven U.S. presidents. This lecture is sponsored by the LBJ Library and LBJ Foundation in honor of Presidents' Day. The lecture will be held in Bates Recital Hall located behind the LBJ Library. [Bates Recital Hall map]

Following the lecture, a reception will be held in the Great Hall at the Library. Mr. Duffy and Ms. Gibbs will be available to sign copies of the book available for sale at the reception. The book has received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BookPage, and The Chicago Tribune, among others.

Tickets are required; seating is limited. Tickets will be available to be picked up at the LBJ Library Information Desk and the Texas Union ticket office beginning Monday, February 11, and will be available at the door if they are still available at that time. Limit two per person. A U.T. ID will be required to pick up tickets at the Texas Union.

Shuttle service will be provided from the LBJ Library parking lot (2313 Red River Street) to Bates Recital Hall from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. The shuttle will resume service from Bates to the LBJ Library immediately following the program.

LBJ Library Information Desk:
2313 Red River Street
Tickets available 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu

Texas Union Ticket Office:
Corner of Guadalupe and 24th Street
Tickets available 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
*U.T. I.D. required
http://www.utexas.edu/txunion/about/tickets/location.php?section=about

Newsweek, August 20, 2007
"Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, both veterans at TIME Magazine, have that peculiar gift among newsmagazine writers for being able to shape masses of complex and contradictory information into a compelling narrative. Even better, they have...packed their story full of details so delicious that even if you've read them before you're happy to read them again. They...show a lion in his winter, turning over the events of his extraordinary life sweetly, with pride, puzzlement and remorse." -

The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2007
"...Shrewd analysis and absorbing narrative"

BookPage, August 2007
"Written with the full cooperation of Billy Graham, this book is no puff piece. From the beginning, Graham asked the authors to share the bad as well as the good. The result is an insightful and thorough account of Graham's life among the presidents, both his blunders and blessings, from his naïveté with the duplicitous Nixon to his support of the Clintons during impeachment and its aftermath. As well written as it is researched, the book grants a fascinating look into the private faith, hopes and fears of the men and families who have lived in the White House... Gibbs and Duffy also reveal how Graham's presence contributed to the rise of faith-based political activism in both parties--though he himself steadily grew in a conviction not to take sides. Whether your interest is politics, faith or simply the history of modern times, The Preacher and the Presidents offers a compelling read--and a reminder that the secular and the sacred are never truly separate.”