Chartwell Lecture: 'Winston Churchill as Author,' Nov. 29

Thursday, Nov. 29, 7:30-9 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

The inaugural Chartwell Lecture will be held in the UAA/APU Consortium Library, Lewis E. Haines Meeting Room, Room 307, on Thursday, Nov. 29, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Our speaker is Ronald Cohen, whose lecture is entitled "Winston Churchill as Author."

Most people alive today view Churchill through his political life. They know of his leadership as a wartime prime minister. They may know of his major addresses, such as the "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton, Mo. in 1946. What they may not know is that Churchill reported from war zones, wrote 58 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. He was handsomely rewarded for his writing. Ronald Cohen will recount the why, the when, the how and the how much of the colossal Churchillian canon.

Our speaker is professor emeritus of law at McGill University and founding President of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa. He wrote the 2,200-page, three-volume Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, which the statesman's daughter Mary Soames called "a massive monument" to her father's industry and genius.

Please plan to join us for a stimulating lecture and discussion, another in the series of free public lectures organized by those who formerly conducted the Polaris Lectures at UAA. Parking is free on campus after 7:30 p.m.

Sponsored by UAA Department of Political Science and College of Arts and Sciences; with assistance from KLEF, Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of Alaska.