It would soon be unleashed on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. The Truman Library institute provided this video. We are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like a 75th anniversary or a 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and for drawing attention. I think theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are in our own day and age reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So its well worth us comiing back to this subject, so im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person, again, in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman and josef stalin smilin
Provided this video. We are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like the 75th anniversary or hundred anniversary, are always occasions for looking back and for drawing attention. I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam as we are in our own day and age, reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking in International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. Im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again, in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here, that i want to return to throughout this presentation, is shown by this photograph here, of Winston Churchill, harry truman and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here, is that these three men a
Watch booktv this Labor Day Weekend on cspan2 and be sure to watch the all virtual 2020s National Book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. Good afternoon. Im jane harman, the president and ceo, like me you are probably suffering from zoom 50. However, to in here. This is a very important event and im excited. This is one of the zooms im really looking forward to. Because we are celebrating a new book, an important book by our very own nina janke waits who has done stellar work at the Wilson Center disinformation fellow, the coolest title ever. Since last october. Before that she was a scholar with our institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose information war, russia, fake news and the future of congress. Its an amazing title and is essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom in all your friends. We remember russia Successful Campaign in 2016 to so distrust and confusion in years ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information war as nin
Conference and theyre always occasions for looking back and drawing attention and theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. So im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that we weraible to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and smiling and shaking hands and the point i want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, a
Am the director of programs exhibitions and Community Partnerships for the massachusetts historical society, and im happy to welcome you to this evenings program. This is our second inperson Program Since march of 2020. Tonight well hear about one of the most consequential battles in american diplomatic history the struggle between president Woodrow Wilson and Senate Majority leader Henry Cabot Lodge over the league of nations our speaker this evening is patricia otoole. Im inso tool is a former professor in the school of arts at columbia university. She is a fellow of the society of american historians and a member of the president ial historial Historical Commission at the New York Historical society. She has published five books including biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and henry adams the second of which was a final for the Pulitzer Prize the National Book critic circle award in the Los Angeles Times book tonight. Shell be speaking on her most recent book, which is the moralist W