Stag field. The university of chicago is an interesting institution. I had the opportunity to spend some time there. The stadium fell into disrepair, and here you see a chart which shows the joseph regin stein library. Imagine this if you can. They tore down their football stadium to build a library. True story. They also left the big ten in 1946. And it left room for another member to join the big ten to make up the full complement of ten. Of course, in 1949, Michigan State university was admitted to the big ten. So the university of chicago left, Michigan State came in. They had a president who was known to observe, when i feel like exercising, i lie down until the feeling goes away. So they were not big into the intracollegiate sports scene. However, in 1942, they still were in the big ten and stag field still existed. It had squash courts under the stadium. And it was on those squash courts that an event transpired that truly changed the course of history. December 2nd, 1942. They
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Studies at yale university. His books include cold war at 30,000 feet, the angloamerican fight for supremacy. He received a pretty significant award he won a prize from the American Historical Association process and a work in strategic history. He wrote consequences of the global cold war published by Stanford University press in two nay and the china diary of george h. W. Bush, making of the global president published by princeton University Press in 2008. The whole reform with one of our manufacturers with the Strategic Studies Institute and 20 times and he wrote to follow the berlin while the revolutionary legacy of 1989, published by oxford University Press in 2009. Obviously a mission that the bush school, but it we know hes doing well asset me. I would now like to suggest are going to have a reintroduction to dr. Jeff said are you coming up on stage. Before he brings his earmarks were going to see a video and this is a pretty significant video because its video in president bush
The bush school and texas a m. When jeff was here at texas a m, he was the director of programming for the scrocroft institute and is a graduate of cornell university. He additionally studied ate st. Katherines college, Oxford University and received his ph. D in American History from the university of wisconsin in madison and serve as an owen post doctoral fellow in interNational Security, studied at yale university. His books include, cold war, at noun feet. The Anglo American fight for aviation supremacy. He received a pretty significant award for that book. He won the prize from the american historical, so i for this outstanding work in history. He wrote local consequences of the global cold war. Published by Stanford University press in 2008. And the china die a of george h. W. Bush, the making of a global president , published by princeton University Press in 2008. Rethinking leadership and whole of Government National security reform, with one of our bush School Faculty members,
Can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and the end of the cold war. Jeff is an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Two of the most recent include into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He put a few chapters of it up online. I know that some of you had a chance to look at it. Ira said, you really should get a practitioner, someone who knows a thing or two about how government