ABOUT THE STATE OF AMERICAN POLITICS
Robert Merry and Lynne Olson discuss her early life and how she became interested in public policy, politics, history, and her sterling journalistic career, including as a Moscow correspondent. Focusing on her writing career, they explore how it began and how she ultimately settled on World War II as a central topic area They also dive into similarities and analogies between the times of her research and today.
Copies of Ms. Olson’s newest book, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, are available at Moonraker Books in Langley.
A book signing will follow the discussion.
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Lynne Olson discusses her critically acclaimed non-fiction book, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War.
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ABOUT LYNNE OLSON
Lynne Olson, New York Times bestselling author of history books, worked as a journalist, first with the Associated Press as a national feature writer in New York, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. Olson’s latest book, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against the Nazis, was published by Random House in March to enthusiastic reviews.
Other works include Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest Hour. Among her five other books is Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England.
ABOUT ROBERT MERRY
Robert Merry spent forty years in Washington, D.C., as political reporter, newsroom executive, corporate CEO, political commentator, and historian. He covered Congress, the White House, and national politics for The Wall Street Journal for a decade, then spent 22 years at Congressional Quarterly as the company’s top editor and CEO. At CQ he won a reputation as a pioneer in digital publishing. After CQ was sold to The Economist of London in 2009, Merry became editor of the foreign policy journal The National Interest. Merry’s books include biographies of postwar columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, and President James Polk, who took America into the Mexican War and expanded U.S. territory by a third. The Alsop book won an Ambassador award from the New York-based English-Speaking Union, while the Polk biography was a New York Times bestseller. Merry is currently working on a book about William McKinley and America’s march toward empire.
