| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 1, 2018 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM | Boardroom and Library, 315 Bloor Street West |
The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein chose to invade Kuwait, China cracked down on its own pro-democracy protesters, and regimes throughout Eastern Europe teetered between democratic change and new authoritarians. Not since FDR in 1945 had a U.S. president faced such opportunities and challenges.
As presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this page-turning history, behind closed doors from the Oval Office to the Kremlin, George H. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. Distrusted by key allies and dismissed as too cautious by the press, Bush employed personal diplomacy to rally a coalition to push Iraq out of Kuwait, to help unify Germany and save NATO, and ultimately to safely navigate the tumultuous end of the Soviet empire. Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and interviews with all of the principals, When the World Seemed New is a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of a president with his hand on the tiller, guiding the United States through a pivotal time and setting the stage for the twenty-first century. Books available for purchase. Refreshments to follow.
About the speaker:
Jeffrey A. Engel is the Founding Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Author or editor of ten books on American foreign policy and the American presidency, his latest is When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.
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