Journalist Carl Bernstein to Talk at the College of Charleston

The Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) and the College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program’s Milton and Freddie Kronsberg Lecture Series are proud to present Carl Bernstein in a dialogue exploring his life and career, with an outlook on current events, in the Sottile Theatre (44 George St.) at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

As part of the KKBE’s 275th anniversary celebration, Bernstein will be in conversation with Donna Leinwand Leger, media strategist, former managing editor of USA Today and past president of the National Press Club. The event is free and open to the public, with VIP tickets that include reserved seating and a subsequent cocktail party with Bernstein available for $180. Registration and tickets are available here.

“The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program is pleased to partner with Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim and thankful for the support from the Milton and Freddie Kronsberg Memorial Lecture Series to have the opportunity to welcome Carl Bernstein to our campus,” says Aimee Arias, dean of the College of Charleston School of Languages, Culture, and World Affairs and interim co-director of the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program. “His remarkable career and profound impact on journalism have shaped how we understand and engage with current events. Having Mr. Bernstein share his experiences and insights with our students, faculty and community is an invaluable opportunity to learn from one of the most influential journalists of our time.”

Bernstein has riveted the world with his investigative journalism and writing for over half a century. In the early 1970s, Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate story for The Washington Post, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and setting the standard for modern investigative reporting, for which they and the Post were awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

Bernstein is the author of five best-selling books and is also an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine. His most recent book, Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital – a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing and American bedlam.

With Woodward, Bernstein wrote two classic bestsellers: All the President’s Men (also a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), about their coverage of the Watergate story, and The Final Days, about the denouement of the Nixon presidency.

Bernstein is also the author of a memoir of his family’s experience in the McCarthy era, entitled  Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir, and co-author of the definitive papal biography, His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, which detailed the pope’s pivotal and often clandestine role in the fall of communism.

Bernstein was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and began his journalism career at age 16 as a copyboy, becoming a reporter at 19. He lives in New York with his wife and is the father of two sons, one a journalist and the other a rock musician.