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start date and time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM

end date and time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 5:30 PM

categories:   international   historical   political   literary

event description:

video webcast -

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars presents author Jeffrey Engel discussing his book The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President. Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, director of the center's Kissinger Institute on China-U.S Relations, and Nancy Bernkopf Tucket, professor of history at Georgetown University, will also comment. The program is co-sponsored by the center's Cold War International History Project, Kissinger Institute, and Asia Program.

Jeffrey Engel - He is the director of the George H.W. Bush School's Snowcroft Institute for International Affairs and assistant professor of history and publiic policy at Texas A&M. He earned his Ph.D. in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book Cold War at 30,000 Feet: the Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy won the 2009 Paul Bridsall Prize from the American Historical Association.

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker - She is a professor of history at Georgetown University and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her specialty is Sino-U.S. relations and she has written several books including the upcoming Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China.

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy - Ambassador Roy retired in 2001 from the Foreign Service after a 45 year career, much of it spent in East Asia. He also served in Moscow during the height of the Cold War. In 1996, he was promoted to the highest rank in the Foreign Service.

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