Presidential Leadership During the Cold War

Georgia History Festival

Tear Down This Wall: The Cold War at 75
A Virtual Conversation Series

Presenting “Presidential Leadership During the Cold War –
A Conversation with William Hitchcock”

This program was held on October 21, 2020. Watch a recording of the program below.

UVA William W. Corcoran Professor of History, author of The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Simon & Schuster, 2018). A conversation with one of the leading Cold War scholars about presidential leadership during the era. With the presidential election coming in November, we will focus on the Cold War’s impact on American politics and presidential elections—and how presidential politics have been impacted by the end of the Cold War as well.

Presentation co-sponsored by

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