William I Hitchcock

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About The Author

William I. Hitchcock is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning teacher who has published numerous books relating to World War II and the Cold War, including The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association. He is also the author of The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. He received his BA degree from Kenyon College and his PhD from Yale University. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a fellow of the Nobel Institute in Oslo, the holder of the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is now the James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia. 

Appearances

OCT 20
6:30PM
In Person

in conversation with David Rubenstein

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New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
OCT 29
12:00AM
In Person

in conversation with Jon Meacham; Dialogue Vanderbilt/250 Conversations on America series

Vanderbilt University
2305 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240
NOV 2
6:45PM
Virtual

virtual event

Smithsonian Associates
NOV 12
5:30PM
In Person

Marshall Foundation Legacy Series Lecture

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George C. Marshall Foundation
340 VMI Parade
Lexington, VA 24450
NOV 19
12:00AM
In Person

19th International Conference on World War II / Opening Keynote

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National WWII Museum
945 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
JAN 28
6:00PM
In Person

in conversation with Benjamin Hett

Roosevelt House
47-49 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
JAN 30
1:00PM
In Person

FDR Presidential Library & Museum
4079 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538

Books by William I Hitchcock

A Shadow Over the World

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II

From New York Times bestselling author William I. Hitchcock, a riveting, revelatory portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II, tracing his—and America’s—awakening to the threat of fascism.
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