Library Lecture Series, Celebrating 140th Anniversary of Maritime College presents:
Global Passage: Transformation of Panama and the Panama Canal
With Author
Robert McMillan, former Panama Canal Commission Chairman
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 @ 15:00, Stephen B. Luce Library
Robert McMillan is former chairman of the Panama Canal as well as a
widely published author. Since being confirmed to the post of United
States Senator in 1989, Mr. McMillan has served as a member of the board
of the American Medical
Association and Madison National Bank, and has founded the Long Island
Housing Partnership to facilitate the development of more choice in
affordable housing. He has written widely about news and policy issues,
the Panama Canal, and other topics, and is a
co-host and political commentator on the PBS show Face Off, as well as
news outlets such as
The New York Times and Newsday. His latest book “Global
Passage: Transformations of Panama and the Panama Canal” profiles the
challenges and evolution of democracy in Panama and the future of the
Panama Canal with its multibillion dollar expansion
plans.
Robert McMillan’s new book Global Passage: Transformation of Panama and the Panama Canal
is a brilliantly researched account of the history of the Panama Canal
and its multibillion dollar plans for future expansion. As
former Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission, McMillan gives us an
insider’s look into the canal’s impact on democracy in Panama, the role
of the Chinese on the canal’s development, and the possibility of a
brand new competing canal being built in Nicaragua.
“McMillan, an American, takes a personal
approach to history in this book about the evolution of the Panama
Canal, published in concert with the canal's 2014 centennial. As a
member of the canal's board in the late 1980s and as the
chairman in the 1990s, McMillan developed a thorough understanding of
the canal's role in both the Panamanian politics and in global commerce,
which he explains in clear, well-developed prose” – Kirkus Reviews
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