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The story of how President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American public responded to the rise of fascism across Europe and Asia is much more complicated than the narrative of isolationism traditionally taught to students. Historian William I. Hitchcock joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss the complexities of the American reaction to authoritarianism, and the gradual efforts that a vast network of activists took to influence Roosevelt’s hardening stance against global fascism. 

William I. Hitchcock is the James Madison Professor of History at the University of Virginia and bestselling author of several books including A Shadow Over the World and The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. 

David M. Rubenstein (moderator), co-founder and co-chairman of the Carlyle Group, is the host of History with David Rubenstein on PBS and the author of Inside The Owner’s Box: Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports, among other books. 

How did FDR’s reaction to the rise of European authoritarianism evolve in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor? 

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William I. Hitchcock

David M. Rubenstein (moderator)

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A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America’s World War II 

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