Written by John Lounsbury
In November, 2019, historian, journalist and author Andrew Nagorski discussed his then newly published book, “1941: The Year Germany Lost the War” at the Library of Congress. This exhaustively researched book, based on many years of work by the author studying myriad personal documents and conducting many interviews, offers insights to the individual actions and thinking of the world leaders of the 1939 to 1941 years.
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From Wikipedia:
Andrew Nagorski is an American journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. From 2008 to April 2014, he was vice-president and director of public policy for the EastWest Institute, an international affairs think tank. Nagorski is based in St. Augustine, FL but continues to travel extensively, writing for numerous publications. His most recent book is 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War (Simon & Schuster, 2019).
Born in 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland of Polish parents, Zygmunt Witold Nagorski Jr. and Marie Bogdaszewska (who emigrated to the United States in 1948),[2] he attended school overseas while his father was in the United States Foreign Service. He earned a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1969, and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Nagorski taught social studies at Wayland High School in Massachusetts before joining Newsweek.
Nagorski worked in many capacities for Newsweek from 1973 to 2008. His jobs included serving as Newsweek’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin. From 2008 to April 2014, he was vice-president and director of public policy for the EastWest Institute, an international affairs think tank.
This video is a few seconds shy of 1 hour and 5 minutes in length. The first introduction is by Kenneth Nyirady, Head of the European Reading Room, ending at 2:33. The moderator of the program, Grant Harris, Chief of European Division, then speaks until 4:09 after which Nagorskistarts his discussion with occasional questions from Harris. The 14 minute Q&A session starts at 50:39.
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