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This new profile of Geoffrey Cowan in the Desert Sun highlights his time as president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and his decision to return full-time to the University of Southern California, where he will continue as a University Professor, holder of the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership and director of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. The Desert Sun profile also includes an overview of his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary, and some of the backstory on how it came to be.
“…. Cowan’s career spans six decades, and the globe — from civil rights campaigns in Mississippi to retreats with world leaders — touching the realms of media, law and academia.
In June 2016, Cowan, shortly after turning 74, will step down as head of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. For almost six years, he’s championed the family’s mission of making the estate in Rancho Mirage ‘the Camp David of the West’ with much success: President Barack Obama has visited five times.”
