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Description of Pictures: One of the most Celebrated biographers of our time, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris will speak about a freeze-frame television image (Ronald Reagan at Bergen-Belsen (NBC television sequence, 1985) that helped inspire his bestselling biography Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.

The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or artist who speaks about a single, powerful image and explores its meaning. American Pictures is made possible through a partnership among Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Additional support comes from the Starr Foundation, the Hodson Trust, and other donors. The Smithsonian American Art Museum especially thanks Julie Walters and Sam Rose for their endowment gift, which supports the museum’s public programs. The Smithsonian American Art Museum especially thanks Julie Walters and Sam Rose for their endowment gift, which supports the museum’s public programs.

From http://washingtoncollegenews.blogspot.com/2012/04/pulitzer-winner-edmund-morris-explores.html :

CHESTERTOWN, MD— Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris, acclaimed for his bestselling books on Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, will take the stage on Saturday, April 21 in the next installment of the 2012 “American Pictures” series at the Smithsonian. Morris will offer a provocative take on Reagan through a close look at a short video sequence of the president’s visit to a German concentration camp. The footage helped inspire his 1999 biography Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.

A joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the “American Pictures” series offers a highly original approach to art, pairing great works with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each talk features an eminent writer, artist, critic or historian who chooses a single favorite image to explore, revealing how artworks reflect American identity and inspire creativity in many different fields.

One of America’s most celebrated biographers, Edmund Morris spent 14 years working on a one-volume life of Reagan, with extensive cooperation from the president during and after his time in the White House. The resulting book, an innovative and controversial blend of research and fiction, has been compared to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.

Reagan’s visit to Bergen-Belsen took place during a controversial 1985 trip to Germany, in the course of which he also laid a wreath at a military cemetery where members of Hitler’s Waffen-SS were buried. In the brief video clip that Morris will examine, taken from an NBC News report, the president and his wife, Nancy, tour a museum at the former concentration camp and come face-to-face with historic images of the Holocaust.

Morris won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1980 for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first installment in what has become the definitive three-volume biography of the 26th President. The second volume of the trilogy, Theodore Rex, followed in 2001 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. The third, the New York Times bestseller Colonel Roosevelt, was published in 2010. Morris’s next book, The Bumstitch and Other Essays, 1972-2012, will be published by Random House in 2012.

All “American Pictures” events take place at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, located at 8th and G Streets, N.W., in Washington, D.C. Morris’s talk will begin at 2 p.m. in the museums’ Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Free tickets are available beginning at 1:30 p.m. at the G Street lobby information desk on a first-come, first-served basis. No reservations are necessary for the general public.

This spring's all-star line-up features four of America’s most celebrated and multi-talented writers: Morris; renowned illustrator and writer Maira Kalman (who appeared on March 24); journalist, travel writer and historian Tony Horwitz (who spoke on April 7); and memoirist, novelist, and musician James McBride, who will conclude the series on May 12. The series director is historian Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MORRIS_120421_013.JPG: Alan Fern, former director of the National Portrait Gallery
2. MORRIS_120421_297.JPG: Edmund Morris @ Smithsonian American Art Museum
3. MORRIS_120421_528.JPG: Pete Souza (photographer of the cover of the book) with Sylvia Jukes Morris.
4. MORRIS_120421_572.JPG: Sylvia Jukes Morris, Alan Fern, and Edmund Morris
5. MORRIS_120421_594.JPG: Best known for his books on Theodore Roosevelt ("The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," "Theodore Rex," and "Colonel Roosevelt") and Ronald Reagan ("Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan"), presidential historian Edmund Morris passed on May 24, 2019. He's seen here back in 2012 with Obama's photograph Pete Souza and Edmund's wife Sylvia.
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- Morris, Edmund appears on:
  - 2011_DC_NBF_Morris_110924 Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Edmund Morris
  - 2010_DC_Morris_101127 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Edmund Morris ("Colonel Roosevelt")
  - 2002_DC_Morris_020205 Capitol Hill History Project -- Edmund and Sylvia Morris ("Theodore Rex")
- Souza, Pete appears on:
  - 2019_DC_Jarrett_190408 Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Valerie Jarrett ("Finding My Voice") w/Anita Dunn
  - 2018_DC_Souza_180508 Natl Archives -- Pete Souza ("An Evening with Former White House Photographer...")
  - 2017_DC_Souza_171216 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Pete Souza ("Obama: An Intimate Portrait")
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