Executive director of the intuit for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor, we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them so thank you. Many of the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and and waved too. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you. So thank you for coming to these events. Military veterans of any other era . If you would stand or wave and please we always know thats a a large number. [ applause ] i love the waves. People give different forms of waves here. Thats good. I like that one. Thank you so much. Now we would also like to acknowledge three special guests in the audience. A curr
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the National World War Ii Museum. All of those of you sitting here and to those watching on the live stream, i know you are out there and with us in spirit and we feel your presence too. As many of you probably no dr. Rob satino im here at the museum and executive direct of the institute for the study of war and democracy. Tonight is the latest installment of our meet the author series and we always like to mention our sponsor we bring this to you with the generous sport of the Strake Foundation and couldnt do it without them thank you. The many have been to the events we know we have a tradition at the mumz. May i ask are there any world war ii veterans or home front workers in the audience tonight . If you would please stand and be wave. Two. [ applause ] thanks, folks. You know, ive heard the president and ceo nick mueller and Steven Watson say this many times we built this museum for you thp thank you for coming to the events. Military veterans of
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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