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Author to Discuss Cold War @ Colgate

Mon, Oct 31, 2011

A new book about the Cold War politics and missteps that lead to the rise of the Berlin Wall will be the focus of a lecture by the author Fred Kempe, at Colgate Thursday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in 27 Persson Hall. 

His book is titled Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and The Most Dangerous Place On Earth.

Kempe is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe, and is now President of the Atlantic Council, a national security and international policy think tank in Washington, D.C.

This is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Berlin Wall.

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