Presented in partnership with the New-York Historical Society
Rick Atkinson
America and World War II
A conversation with David M. Rubenstein
World War II was a turning point in American history during which our nation began to assert its role as a great world power. How did U.S. involvement—as well as the leadership of key figures like President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower—change the course of the largest war in history? In an expansive conversation, acclaimed author Rick Atkinson, in conversation with David M. Rubenstein, discusses the consequential campaigns fought by American forces in Europe and North Africa, including the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final thrust into the heart of the Third Reich.
Rick Atkinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and journalist, and the author of the monumental Liberation Trilogy. The first volume, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Other volumes in the series include The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 and The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Atkinson was a Founder and Us 2020 speaker at the Four Arts.
David M. Rubenstein (moderator), co-founder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, is the author of numerous books, including The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream.