Show Notes
Professor Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History at Bard College. Prior to that, he taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was the chair of the history department. He's the author of numerous books including works on Reagan and Thatcher's relationship, a dual biography of Disraeli and Gladstone and the subject of our conversation Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
Journals: 1952-2000
The Age of Jackson
Orestes Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress
The Age of Roosevelt
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Perils of the Court Historian
Patrick Geoghegan
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire
A Question of Leadership
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Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time.
Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Professor Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, as well an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
This is the finale for Season 2 of IR Talk. Tune in for every answer to the question of "Did Athenians Students in the time of the Peloponnesian War know more than current students?"