JHU SAIS to Host Book Release Event for Sen. Mansfield Biography

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Asia Society will co-host an event to celebrate the release of Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat by Donald Oberdorfer, SAIS Journalist-in-Residence, on Tuesday, 10/14 at 5:30 p.m.

This event will feature a talk by Oberdorfer, a longtime Washington Post reporter, about his new book to be published Friday, 10/10, by Smithsonian Institution Press. Mark Shields, syndicated columnist and political commentator, and John Glenn, former U.S. senator and astronaut, both friends of Mike Mansfield, will provide introductory remarks.

This biography of the former Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Ambassador to Japan is based on 32 interviews with Oberdorfer in the last three years of his life. Mansfield had previously refused to write his memoirs and shunned the entreaties of would-be biographers, making this the first and only official account of his remarkable diplomatic career. The New York Times Book Review will publish a review of the biography on Sunday, 10/12.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school's Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to 202.663.5831 or [email protected].

For more information, contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].