Old Friends Talking The Midterm Blues, with Jounalists Bob Drogin, and Tom Hamburger.

Wednesday, July 20 at 5:00: Old Friends Talking the Midterm Blues: with Journalists Bob Drogin and Tom Hamburger

Bob Drogin and Tom Hamburger have been best friends for 50 years. Join us in conversation with these two illustrious journalists with storied careers as they give us the scoop on Washington from the journalist’s personal POV.

Bob Drogin spent 38 years as a Los Angeles Times reporter and editor, based in New York, Manila, Johannesburg and Washington, where he was White House editor during the Trump administration. He has won or shared numerous journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and is author of “Curveball: Spies, Lies and the Conman who Caused a War,” which won the Cornelius Ryan award for best non-fiction book on international affairs in 2007. He spends most of the year in West Tisbury. 

Tom Hamburger is an investigative journalist on the national desk of the Washington Post, where he focuses on the intersection of money and politics in the White House, Congress and Supreme Court. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and other awards for his work on the Trump campaign and administration ties to Russia. He is co-author of “One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century.” He spends most of the year at work.

In-person and on Zoom. Email tthorpe@clamsnet.org for more information or to receive the Zoom invite.

Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360