Eisenhower in War and Peace, Speaker: Jean Edward Smith

May 7, 2012

Jean Edward Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Visiting Senior Scholar in the History Department at Columbia University. He is a prolific author, and has been called by George Will, “Today’s foremost biographer of formidable figures in American history.” His biographies include the following best-sellers: FDR, New York: Random House, 2007 (winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians); Grant, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, New York: Henry, Holt & Company, 1996; and Lucius D. Clay: An American Life, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. He is now at work on a biography of George W. Bush.

He will be lecturing on his newest and very well reviewed book, Eisenhower in War and Peace, New York: Random House, 2012.

The event is free and open to the public. Please register at http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11753.

Co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs.