Book Launch: The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil скачать в хорошем качестве

Book Launch: The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil

CFR Fellows' Book Launch Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, almost-president in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice president, and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, as a result of which Harry Truman became president on FDR’s death. Books, films, and even plays have since portrayed the circumstances surrounding Wallace’s defeat as corrupt, and the results catastrophic. Based on striking new finds from Russian, FBI, and other archives, Benn Steil’s The World That Wasn’t paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, of the events surrounding his fall, and of the world that might have been under his presidency. Speaker Benn Steil Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century Presider Michael Froman President, Council on Foreign Relations Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/WCYsH7 The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on Twitter:   / cfr_org   Follow CFR on Facebook:   / councilonforeignrelations