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Spring 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
1 hour 25 minutes 25 seconds
17 years ago
The Pivot of the 20th Century
Contributor(s): Professor David Kennedy | Winston Churchill said in 1945 that 'the United States stands at this moment at the summit of the world'. Yet just five years earlier America had been an economic catastrophe and an isolationist bastion. How that transformation came about, and its consequences, will be the subject of this lecture. David M Kennedy is Donald J McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University.
Spring 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
Audio and pdf files from LSE's spring 2008 programme of public lectures and events.