Brooks and Shields Bless Springfield with Presence!

Springfield, MA - David Brooks and Mark Shields will be coming to the Springfield Public forum to debate and discuss local issues!!! on tuesday november 30th come to the springfield symphony hall to see this wonderful event!

The Wall Street Journal has called Mark Shields "the wittiest political analyst around" and "frequently the most trenchant, fair-minded, and thoughtful." The Washington Posthas called Shields "a walking almanac of American politics." His insights are first-hand and up-to-the minute, drawn from four decades of knowing, covering and savoring the country and its politics. A nationally known columnist and commentator, Shields has worked in Washington through the administrations of nine U.S. Presidents. He was an editorial writer for The Washington Post where he began writing his column in 1979. That column is now distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.

David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweekand the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." He is the author of Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, both published by Simon & Schuster. Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.

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