America's Leading Paleoconservative Intellectual Discusses Memoir March 30

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (03/17/2010)(readMedia)-- America's leading paleoconservative intellectual Paul Gottfried shares insights gathered over a lifetime of encounters with fascinating figures--including U.S. President Richard Nixon, Paul Piccone, Christopher Lasch, Patrick Buchanan and Herbert Marcus--during a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at Elizabethtown College's High Library. Following the event, Gottfried, who is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at the College, will sign copies of his critically well-received memoir, "Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers," during a reception. This event is open to the public.

In "Encounters," Gottfried puts past political battles aside in order to recount his varied associations and friendships with a number of fascinating political figures. This memoir emphasizes the Forrest Gump-like quality of Gottfried's often accidental relationships with celebrities and stimulating personalities, the benefits of which were not social or professional but personal. The author insists his life would be of little general interest were it not for the fortuitous encounters that have raised it out of the ordinary. "Encounters" was published by ISI Books.

Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., has published an autobiography recounting his experiences with former President Nixon and other influential people in his life. When asked why he chose to write this book now, he commented "I have very little hope for the rising generation whose minds have been saturated with political correctness through public education and the entertainment industry…everything I write, including this autobiography, is directed to the few, who may be looking for other behavioral and cultural models. 'Encounters' treats some Marxists better than it does today's movement conservatives or the current political Left. That is because the academic Marxists of my youth were highly educated individuals, with a deep sense of history, even if they proposed economically unsound policies and were blind to Soviet tyranny. Today Left and Right are equally vacuous and usually indistinguishable."

Additional information is available by contacting Michael Long at 717-361-1240.

Elizabethtown College, in south central Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. We "Educate for Service" and bring a unique global perspective to our students' lives.

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