Historical Studies Program Presents
2015 Eugene Meyer Lecture: Professor Mark Lytle, Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Preston
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Nixon and Kissinger: Transatlantic Relations, the Nixon Doctrine, and Detente
Eminent historian Professor Mark Lytle, who retires from Bard at the end of the 2014/15 academic year after forty years of distinguished service, delivers the 2015 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture. He will speak on President Nixon, Henry Kissinger and their influence on America in the world.Professor Lytle is the author of The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (2007); America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (2006); After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (6th ed., 2009); Experience History: Interpreting America’s Past (9th ed., 2013); United States: A Narrative History (3rd ed., 2014); The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1940-1953 (1987).
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), for whom the annual lecture and the Eugene Meyer Chair are named, was the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. Previous Eugene Meyer speakers include Sir David Cannadine, Andrew Roberts, Fintan O'Toole and Colm Tóibín. The Eugene Meyer Chair was endowed at Bard in 2010.
For more information, call 845-758-7398, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Preston
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