Andrew Roberts has been invited by the Liberal Arts College to give the 35th annual Alumni Reunion Weekend keynote lecture.
Abstract In an age of increasing impersonality, bureaucratism and “globalism”, is it still possible for truly great individuals to make a decisive impact, morally and politically, on the unfolding of history--and if so, how so?
When: Thursday, May 1, 2014, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Where: Room MB-3.210, John Molson School of Business Building (1450 Guy St.), Sir George Williams Campus
About the speaker Andrew Roberts (Cornell University) is an internationally-noted historian of modern Europe, with books on Napoleon, Wellington, and Churchill; a History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900; Masters and Commanders; and the recent, acclaimed The Storm of War. A New History of the Second World War.
Roberts, with a doctorate from Cambridge University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and The Daily Beast, among other journals and newspapers.