Onstage at the Reagan Library with former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

Please join us for an in-person event with former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper for his new bestselling book, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times (Publish Date: May 10, 2022). Copies of his book can be pre-purchased through our website’s registration process. All books will come pre-signed by Dr. Esper. The event is free to attend; Reservations are not required for this event. All walk-ins are welcome.

Please note that the schedule for this event is different than most of our events.  Dr. Esper will be doing a photo line from 4:30pm-5:30pm in our Museum Store for anyone who has purchased a copy of A Sacred Oath through us.  Only guests who have purchased a book through us may go through the photo line.

In A Sacred Oath, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until after the November 2020 election, Secretary Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations, and a White House seemingly bent on breaking accepted norms and conventions for political advantage. A Sacred Oath is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those extraordinary and dangerous times, and includes events and moments never before told.

Mark Esper is an American politician and manufacturing executive who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Defense from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he had previously served as the 23rd U.S. Secretary of the Army from November 2017 to July 2019.