(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- The Morristown Festival of Books will welcome host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, journalist, and author Fareed Zakaria as its 2024 Keynote Speaker. Zakaria will discuss his New York Times best seller, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present on Friday, October 18, 2024 at the Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) in Morristown. The event begins at 7:30pm.
Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s flagship international affairs show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of four New York Times best sellers, including Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.
How can history's revolutions help us better understand today's challenges? In his major new work, Age of Revolutions, Zakaria explores the pivotal revolutions that have shaped world history—from the economic revolution of the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age to the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Britain and America—and examines how the current revolutions in globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics can provide lessons to overcome all challenges.
Tickets are available at morristownbooks.org or by calling the MPAC box office at 973-539-8008. Tickets are available at two levels: $60 General Admission and $100 Festival Champion Admission. Both include a signed hardcover copy of Age of Revolutions.
The Keynote Event is generously co-sponsored by Delta Dental and the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, as well as Special Event Sponsor JP Morgan Chase. This fundraiser event helps underwrite the remarkable free offerings of MFOB’s all-day Saturday Festival, which features the opportunity to interact with scores of authors.
The all-day, free Main Festival takes place on Saturday, October 19, and has something for everyone. More than 100 award-winning and best-selling authors will speak and answer questions at five locales, all within walking distance of each other along South Street in historic Morristown. Book sales and signings will take place on the grounds of the historic Vail Mansion. KidFest is an activity-filled part of the event where kids meet their favorite authors, get their books signed, and partake in crafts, face painting, and more.
Morristown Festival of Books is a fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey, a non-profit corporation.
