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                PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN ROBERT DALLEK TO DELIVER INAUGURAL
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES LECTURE




                             Robert Dallek, professor of history at Boston
University, will deliver the first Massachusetts Archives lecture on
Tuesday, September 26 at 8 p.m. at the Archives Building on Columbia Point,
Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin said today.
                        Professor Dallek, who has written extensively on the
presidency, will speak on "The American Presidency: 20th Century
Transformations."
                        "I am pleased to have such a noted presidential
historian as Professor Dallek deliver the first in the Massachusetts
Archives Lecture Series," Secretary Galvin said. "His depth of understanding
of the forces that shape the office of the President will offer our audience
a valuable perspective as we approach this presidential election."
                        Professor Dallek, who taught for 30 years at UCLA
before coming to Boston University in 1996, won the Bancroft Prize in
history for Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945.
Among his books are Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American
Presidents;  Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960;
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973; and Ronald Reagan:
The Politics of Symbolism.
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                A Guggenheim fellow, and fellow of the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Dallek has also
taught at Columbia University, California Institute of Technology, Oxford
University, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas.
                        Professor Dallek is now working on a biography of
President John F. Kennedy.
                The lecture will be the meeting room of the Massachusetts
Archives Building at Columbia Point, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester.
The lecture is free, but admission is by ticket only. For tickets and
information, call Joseph Perullo at the Massachusetts Archives (617)
727-9150.
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