Richard Aldous Reviews Ike and Winston for the Wall Street Journal
Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Distinguished Professor of History.
Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Bard College, has published a review in the Wall Street Journal of historian Jonathan W. Jordan’s book Ike and Winston: World War, Cold War, and an Extraordinary Friendship, a detailed exploration of the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill as they shaped world events from WWII through the Cold War era. “Jordan tells the story of Eisenhower and Churchill with great brio,” writes Aldous for the Wall Street Journal. “He is writing for a general rather than a scholarly audience, so he does not much bother with the debates among historians about these two giants. If perhaps he is sometimes a little heavy-handed with the metaphors … he makes up for it with a sense for drama and telling incidental detail that never disrupts the narrative.
The Historical Studies Program at Bard College encourages students to examine history through the prism of other relevant disciplines such as anthropology, economics, and philosophy and different forms of expression. The program also introduces students to a variety of methodological perspectives used in historical research and to philosophical assumptions about men, women, and society that underlie these perspectives.
Post Date: 06-16-2026
The Historical Studies Program at Bard College encourages students to examine history through the prism of other relevant disciplines such as anthropology, economics, and philosophy and different forms of expression. The program also introduces students to a variety of methodological perspectives used in historical research and to philosophical assumptions about men, women, and society that underlie these perspectives.
Post Date: 06-16-2026