A San Francisco Chronicle Herb Caen Lecture featuring Dan Rather, who was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces long form programming examining major global topics and events for the Discovery Channel, will be in conversation with Orville Schelll, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Often referred to as "the hardest working man in broadcast journalism," Rather lives up to the description. His recently published seventh book, The American Dream, chronicles the stories of a wide cross-section of Americans, describing how they achieved their versions of the American dream.