Personal tragedy we watch with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease and how in the most as u. S. Commander into use the dying president attempted at hawaii, quebec to prepare the United Nation for a post world war order. Now we know, even on his deathbed fdr was the worst great visionary. Douglas brinkley said, were in peace is hitlers demise. And coauthor of american war and peace, a stunning achievement. Hamilton commands his talent as both a meticulous military history in the season biographer and the result is an intimate portrait of americas most consequential president s. Nigel hamilton is a bestselling and awardwinning biographer of president john f. Kennedy, general bernard and president bill clinton among other subjects. His most recent book the mantle of commands, the previous book fdr in 1941 to 19421 the National Book award, hes a senior fellow at the mccormick graduate school of university of massachusetts boston. Thank you all for joining us please welcome n
Editorial more and reward and in the end instead of six hours we went close to ten hours. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon. I am the director of the institute for research on women, gender and sensuality and it is a great pleasure and great honor to be used this afternoon to moderate this panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book, a book on marriage eat quality by catherine frankie. What we are going to do this the afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion. We have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and introduce them all briefly altogether and they will speak in deep water that we determined. It is all going to begin with a presentation of the book end its main issues of history by catherine frankie. She is the professor of law, director of the center for gender and sexual along which is a wonderful instit
Rich history. Learn more at www. Cspan. Org. Are watching American History tv, all weekend, every week it on cspan 3. Coming up next on the presidency, a conversation about the world war ii leadership styles a president Franco Roosevelt and british Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Policy posse institute hosted this event. Welcome to roosevelt house. , the actingpolsky dean of Hunter College. And professor of political science. Our program this evening features to visitors, who are deeply knowledgeable about the decisions that led up to be historic moment 70 years ago when allied forces stormed ashore of normandy to begin the final struggle of the liberation of europe from nazi germany. Nigel hamilton is the author of the just published book the mantle of command. Works, allenher packwood is the director of director of churchill archives centre. The leading authority on all things western churchill. In a few moments, i will turn thethe microphone to tina, sponsor of our series on churc
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Following her introduction, each of our guests will speak for about 20 minutes and then they will join me for a conversation. Well have time for audience questions before we close. History shifts over time and perhaps it is so with the two men who are the subjects of this evenings program. Western churchill exercised an influence over the immediate postwar depreciation of allied leadership. He was admired for his determination after the fall of france in 1940 through the battle of britain and for his warning an iron curtain was dissenting after the war. His reputation was helped in no small measures to build his own magisterial six volume series, the second world war. Perhaps the first great fiction that the war generated. [laughter] fdrs star faded when his political enemies depicted him as the great sellout of the people of eastern europe. More recently though, we have seen a shift in historical perception. Historians have found more to admire in roosevelt, while churchill had lost s