The Harvard Club of Phoenix

Potluck Dinner with Andrei Cherny

Meet Andrei Cherny, author of the recently released book, The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour. It tells the story of how a small group of Americans, with few resources and against all expectations, fed half of one of the largest cities in the world by air for more than a year, thereby avoiding World War III, winning the hearts of our defeated enemies, and inspiring people around the world to believe in America's fundamental goodness. For more information about this book and how to purchase it, click on http://www.thecandybombers.com/

Andrei is co-founder and co-editor of the critically acclaimed Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal of serious progressive thought that seeks to spur new ideas on the big challenges of the 21st century. Democracy -- available in print and online -- has a readership in every state and 90 countries around the world. Over the years, Andrei has provided policy and strategy advice to Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Cabinet members, Governors, United States Senators, members of the House of Representatives, national labor unions, Fortune 100 CEOs, and prominent civic leaders. From February 2003 through the spring of 2004, Cherny served as a senior advisor for John Kerry's Presidential campaign. As the 2000 Platform Director, Cherny was the lead negotiator and chief drafter of the national 2000 Democratic Party Platform. Andrei's first book, The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age -- one of the top-selling political books of 2001 -- examined the roles technological and generational change have played over the course of American history and laid out a progressive vision for government and community life in the 21st century. A former senior speechwriter and advisor to Vice President Al Gore, Cherny was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history.

Andrei, his wife, Stephanie, and their son, Ben, reside in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a criminal prosecutor and an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He graduated from Harvard College and from the University of California's Boalt Hall Law School. For more information about Andrei, click on http://www.andreicherny.com/my_weblog/bio.html

When: Saturday, May 17 5:00 p.m.

Where: Home of Tim and Joyce Shavers
29228 N 120 Ln, Peoria, Arizona

Click here for a link to a map.

Directions: Exit Loop 101 at 75th Ave and take 75th Ave north for 1 mile. Turn left at Deer Valley Rd then, in about 2 miles, turn right at N Lake Pleasant Rd and continue 2 miles. Turn left at Happy Valley Parkway and continue about 5 miles to your first stop sign, at Ridgeline Rd. Turn right onto Ridgeline Rd and continue about 1 mile, then turn right at N 121st Ave, where you'll find the front gate to our neighborhood. Past the gate, turn left and follow the street as it winds through our neighborhood. We are near the end of the street, on the right, at number 29228.

RSVP: Joyce @ 480-240-9233 or joyceshavers@yahoo.com