![]() ![]() Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton 20. Book signing and purchase will be available courtesy of Elm Street Books, New Canaan. ![]() the President has a thing for Gore Vidal as an essayist, but his historical novels set my teeth on edge. See library’s registration link for more details. The historian and author, most recently, of The General vs. Traitor to His Class and The First American were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Truman would inform the nation in a televised address on Dec. A New York Times bestselling author, his books include Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American, and TR. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. The General and the President vividly evokes the making of a new American era. The contest of wills between these two titanic characters unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of a faraway war and terrors conjured at home by Joseph McCarthy. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, 7 – 8:30 p.m. ![]()
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