FDR and the End of Empire: The Origins of American Power in the Middle East (The World of the Roosevelts)

let me introduce our author Christopher C O'Sullivan is the author of FDR and the end of empire the origins of American power in the Middle East he's also the author of colon pouch American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq and summer wealth both were planning and the quest for a new world order he teaches history at the University of San Domenico was a recent Fulbright visiting professor at the University Jordan and delivered the keynote address at the UN 60th anniversary session he received his BA in history from the University of California Berkeley and his PhD in history from the university of london london school of economics let's welcome our oh thank you good afternoon everyone I appreciate you coming to this session because I realized there's a lot of competition so means a lot to me that you're here and I want to thank the staff to the franklin d roosevelt presidentia