Virtual lecture and live Q&A featuring author A.J. Baime
This October, we will launch the first “live” event in Our American Values series. Author A.J. Baime is an old friend of The War Memorial having spoken here in fall 2019 drawing on his earlier book, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and The Battle for Speed and Glory at LeMans. This time, A.J. will join us virtually from his home in Northern California to talk about his new book, Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul. Ted Everingham, former board chair and long time board member of The War Memorial, will interview A.J. and bring the audience into the discussion. A one-hour session is planned.
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About A.J. Baime
A.J. is the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President (2017), The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (2015), and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans (2006). He is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men's Journal. He holds an MA in literature from NYU and currently lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit A. J. at Facebook.com/ajbaime and Trumanbook.com.
About Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
A.J.’s new book tells the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest political comebacks ever, and how a watershed election set a new course for America. As the publisher describes it, “ In Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgment of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election, but he also succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern-day.