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With democracy still young and untested, agression from a foreign power forced America to unite as a nation and a people.

 A lecture by American historian Ian Toll

With an introduction by Ambassador Ian C. Kelly

DATE: Wednesday, November 9, 2016

TIME: 19:00

LOCATION: Ilia State University, 32 Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue, auditorium B 202

Mr. Toll’s lecture will focus on the state of the American nation shortly after independence, and the internal and external pressures that forced America’s leaders to fight to protect their soverignty. In 1801, our freedom would be tested by the might of the British Empire, our former rulers. But economic uncertainty, feuding political parties and pistol duels threatned to tear the country apart. Unless the people could unite and find a common cause, American democracy would have no future.   

Ian Toll is an American author and political/military historian known for his examination of U.S. federal government decision making during international maritime conflicts. He is best known for his examinations of the escalation and conflicts between the United States and Great Britain in the War of 1812 and the WW II Pacific Theater against the Japanese. His books have won broad critical acclaim and were selected for the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the William E. Colby Award, and New York Times “Editor’s Choice” list.

Born in Japan while his father was on a Fulbright scholarship abroad, Toll received a Bachelor’s degree in American History at Georgetown University and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to writing historical non-fiction, Toll was a Wall Street analyst, a Federal Reserve financial analyst, and a political aide and speechwriter.

The lecture is free and open to the public

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