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Newsweek editor-at-large, Evan W. Thomas III discusses U.S. military history and the various reasons that former presidents have gone to...
Speaker: Evan W. Thomas III, Editor at Large, Newsweek; Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University; Author, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Presider: Douglas G. Brinkley, Professor of History and Fellow, James Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University; Author,The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
November 30, 2010
Newsweek editor-at-large, Evan W. Thomas III discusses U.S. military history and the various reasons that former presidents have gone to war.
This meeting is part of a series hosted with the National History Center featuring prominent historians who will examine the events and times that shaped foreign policy as we know it today.
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