Investor Politics Author to speak at Lipscomb University
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'Investor Politics' Author to speak at Lipscomb University
John McDonald Hood, author of "Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government and Politics in the 21st Century,' will speak at Lipscomb University from Noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, in Room 108 of the Swang Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a public policy think tank based in Raleigh, N.C. Hood writes and comments frequently on politics, education, health care,
regulation, and other issues for national media organizations. His articles have appeared both in magazines -- such as Readers' Digest, The New Republic, National Review, Policy Review, Military History, and Reason (for which he is a contributing editor) -- and in newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The San Diego Union, The Arizona Republic, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Orange County Register, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Investor Politics," Hood's most recent book, is an account of "the most significant demographic shift of this century - the rise of a shareholder democracy in America," said former Congressman Jack Kemp.
Hood previously worked in Washington at a number of media and policy organizations. Before coming to JLF, he worked as a reporter/researcher at The New Republic, where he assisted senior editors Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke with articles as well as their television program, "The McLaughlin Group."
Hood is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded a student magazine called The Carolina Critic in the mid-1980s that ultimately grew to encompass five campus editions (at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, and Wake Forest University). He is a native of Charlotte and resides in Southern Wake County, North Carolina with his wife, Lisa, and sons Alex and Andrew.