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An Evening with Dana Milbank (Charlottesville, VA)
April 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Blue Ridge PRISM is pleased to host Washington Post opinion columnist and author, Dana Milbank, on April 13th in Charlottesville. Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post and a New York Times bestselling author. He “recently bought a property in the Virginia Piedmont, with the pandemic-inspired idea of finding peace in nature.” Hear how it’s going.
Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post and a New York Times bestselling author. His column appears in the Post and hundreds of other newspapers. It has for several years been the Post’s most popular op-ed column online. Milbank also provides political commentary for MSNBC and various other TV and radio outlets, and he is the author of four books on politics, including the New York Times bestseller “The Destructionists” and the national bestseller “Homo Politicus.” His next book, “The Fools on the Hill,” will be out in August.
Milbank joined The Post at the beginning of the 2000 presidential campaign. He covered President George W. Bush’s first term and the 2004 election as a White House correspondent on The Post’s National staff. His awards include the White House Correspondents’ Association Beckman award for “repeated excellence in White House coverage” and the National Press Club’s Gingras prize for humor writing. He has been writing the column since 2005.
Before joining The Post, Milbank spent two years as a senior editor at the New Republic, where he covered the Clinton White House, and eight years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, where he covered Congress and was a London-based correspondent. He is a 1990 graduate of Yale University.