2016 Eugene Meyer Annual Lecture Presents

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin: The Big Three and World War Two

David Reynolds is Professor of International History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author of eleven books, including the Wolfson Prize-winning In Command of History: Churchill Writing and Fighting the Second World War. He has written and presented thirteen historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century, including a trilogy on Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, as well as the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty.

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, Mark Lytle and Colm Tóibín. The Eugene Meyer Chair, held by Professor Richard Aldous, was endowed at Bard in 2010.

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For more information, call 845-758-7398, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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