At the nadir of Western Civilization, two men were working together to save the world. They were Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In this installment of the Massachusetts School of Law’s “Books of Our Time” Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews author James Humes. Humes, a former White House staffer during Ike’s administration, has written a lively and engaging portrait of the relationship between Ike and Churchill during the Second World War entitled: "Eisenhower and Churchill: The Partnership That Changed the World." Churchill was a professional politician and an amateur strategist while Eisenhower was a professional strategist and a professional politican. Humes explores Eisenhower’s tremendous ability to work with different personalities, forge common ground and get the job down. Churchill, initially viewed IKE as under qualified, came to posses an extraordinary faith in the General. The work tracks the genesis of their relationship from Operation Torch in North Africa, to Sicily and Italy and to D-Day and the Northern European land campaign of 1944-45.
The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.At the nadir of Western Civilization, two men were working together to save the world. They were Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower...all »At the nadir of Western Civilization, two men were working together to save the world. They were Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In this installment of the Massachusetts School of Law’s “Books of Our Time” Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews author James Humes. Humes, a former White House staffer during Ike’s administration, has written a lively and engaging portrait of the relationship between Ike and Churchill during the Second World War entitled: "Eisenhower and Churchill: The Partnership That Changed the World." Churchill was a professional politician and an amateur strategist while Eisenhower was a professional strategist and a professional politican. Humes explores Eisenhower’s tremendous ability to work with different personalities, forge common ground and get the job down. Churchill, initially viewed IKE as under qualified, came to posses an extraordinary faith in the General. The work tracks the genesis of their relationship from Operation Torch in North Africa, to Sicily and Italy and to D-Day and the Northern European land campaign of 1944-45.
The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.«
