PROGRAM

Susan Butler‘s new book explores the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin and tells the story of how the leaders of the capitalist world and the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II. Roosevelt and Stalin is based on previously classified materials from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, and the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, as well as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library — sources that allow Butler to reassess how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the world’s political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century. Butler, the biographer of Amelia Earhart (East to the Dawn), will be interviewed by Budd Mishkin, NY1 correspondent and host of “One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.” 

Introductory remarks by Fay Rosenfeld, Senior Director of Programs and Chief Operating Officer, Roosevelt House.