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BIOGRAPHER WALTER ISAACSON TO SPEAK AT LEH AWARDS CEREMONY ON MARCH 29, 2014 SLIPCASES ENHANCE LOUISIANA BICENTENNIAL ART BOOK A limited number of protective linen slipcases are now available for purchase to those who currently own a copy of A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana or for new purchases of the lavishly illustrated book published in 2012 by the LEH in partnership with Louisiana's State Bicentennial Commission. The slipcases cost $15 each; the book itself is $120 (plus tax and shipping). Call (504) 620-2630 or go to www.leh.org to order. Edited by Michael Sartisky, Ph.D., LEH president, and J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D., director emeritus of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, A Unique Slant of Light includes * 276 entries on Louisiana artists, authored by dozens of notable scholars, along with essays on various time periods of Louisiana art and special sections on Newcomb pottery, furniture, metal arts and Carnival-related illustrations. * More than 400 images from private collections and the state's major museums and archives, available for the first time in an elegant print edition. A digital version of the book can be found at www.leh.org, featuring links to KnowLA, The Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana (www.knowla.org), which includes image galleries and full biographies of selected artists. A Unique Slant of Light makes a great holiday gift. In addition to online ordering, copies are available at Barnes and Noble bookstores statewide and in New Orleans at Faulkner House Books, Friends of the Cabildo Book Store, Garden District Book Shop, Octavia Books and The Historic New Orleans Collection. Noted author Walter Isaacson, a former New Orleanian who has written bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Henry Kissinger, will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Annual Awards Ceremony on March 29. The LEH will Walter Isaacson honor recipients for their outstanding contributions to the humanities at a ceremony and luncheon at the Audubon Tea Room in New Orleans. Ticket prices and honorees will be announced at a future date. For more information, log on to www.leh.org or or call (504) 620-2630. Each year the LEH Board of Directors recognizes achievements in the following categories: * Louisiana Humanist of the Year * Lifetime Contribution to the Humanities * Chair's Award for Institutional Support * Humanities Documentary Film of the Year * Individual Achievement in the Humanities * Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography * Humanities Book of the Year Isaacson was born in New Orleans in 1952 and graduated from the city's Isidore Newman School. He attended Harvard University and was an Oxford University Rhodes scholar. He worked as a journalist for the Sunday Times of London and the New Orleans States-Item and Times-Picayune. In 1996 Isaacson became the 14th editor " Your energy of TIME magazine and was hired as saving specialist" chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001. For the past decade, he has served as CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. In 2012 he was selected as one of the TIME 100, the magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. 116 Grand Drive Steve Jobs appointed Isaacson as Metairie, Louisiana 70003 his official biographer in 2009. The www.thermal-products.com book debuted in October 2011, mere weeks after the famed inventor's death and became an instant New York Times A I R CONDITIONING bestseller. "Since 1961" 504-818-1008 4 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES * Winter 2013-14 fax 504-818-1042 toll-free: 1-800-972-8727 email: enagel@thermal-products.com AND ICE MACHINE S  http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org http://www.knowla.org http://www.thermal-products.com

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