Events (Lectures) - Fall 2009
CANCELLED....Thursday, October 22
4:30pm, 165 McGraw Hall
Timothy Naftali, "Writing the History of Shadows: Assessing Bush's War on Terror." This talk is part of the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture Series in History and is open to the public.
Mr. Naftali is director of the Richard Nixon Library. A prolific writer for both popular and scholarly audiences, his work has appeared on Slate.com, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and other publication, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, the History Channel and C-SPAN. He is the author of four books, including Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, and, with Aleksander Fursenko, "One Hell of a Gamble": Khruschchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. His second book with Fursenko, Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, received the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature in June 2007. His most recent book, George H.W. Bush, appeared in December 2007 as part of The American Presidents series, edited by the late Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz. Naftali was a consultant to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, which located and declassified U.S. government records relating to war crimes committed by the Nazi and Imperial Japanese governments during World War II and the disposition of war criminals after the conflict. He was also a consultant on the history of U.S. counterterrorism policy to the National Commission of Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (popularly known as the "9/11 Commission"). Naftali received his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.
Mr. Naftali's book will be available for purchase before the lecture outside McGraw 165.
The LaFeber-Silbey Endowment, named in honor of Cornell history professors Walter LaFeber and Joel Silbey, is dedicated to bringing distinguished outside speakers to Cornell to give a public lecture and to meet with undergraduates.