Pritzker Military Library

January

1/22/2009

H.W. Brands
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life & Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Over the idyllic days and nights they shared as children, the prep schools and pursuits of leisure, he gave no sign that he would, one day, betray them. Like them ...

Thomas R Norris <br /> U.S. Navy, Vietnam

1/29/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Thomas R Norris
U.S. Navy, Vietnam
For three years, it was a secret that Tom Norris had participated in one of the most difficult and dangerous rescues ever attempted in the Vietnam War. Since...

February

The First 100 Days: <br />What Challenges Face the New Commander-in-Cheif?

2/5/2009

Front & Center with John Callaway
The First 100 Days:
What Challenges Face the New Commander-in-Cheif?
President Barack Obama has laid out a bold domestic agenda to address the economy and other challenges at home, but what kind of impact is he looking to ...

2/6/2009

Kay Smith
Kay Smith Lecture
In celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, you are cordially invited to a tour in watercolors of the places that shaped him and the America he knew...

2/10/2009

Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier & Public Servant
Generations of soldiers, Colin Powell among them, count him as a mentor. Our nation counts Julius W. Becton as a trailblazer, a leader, and one of its most dedicated ...

2/17/2009

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill & The Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
The USS Bunker Hill was a behemoth, among the largest ships ever built - like a floating skyscraper laid flat on the sea, with capacity for 3,400 men and 100 ...

White Heat:<br/>The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson

2/20/2009

Brenda Wineapple Luncheon
White Heat:
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
He had seen men enslaved, and seen death in battle on a terrible scale. So when a young, unknown poet named Emily Dickinson wrote to ask whether he thought her...

The Last Stand of Fox Company: <br/>A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

2/24/2009

Tom Clavin
The Last Stand of Fox Company:
A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
The Marines of Fox Company began October with every reason to hope they would be home for Christmas. But shortly before Thanksgiving, they were among the ...

2/25/2009

City Corps Staff Briefing
Area 26 - Military Schools and JROTC
The Pritzker Military Library was honored to be the site for the 2009 City Corps Staff Briefing, outlining the mission, goals and accomplishments of Chicago's...

2/26/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Paul W. Bucha
He went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky with orders to select and train a company of soldiers for service in Vietnam. Like most young company commanders ...

March

3/5/2009

Front & Center with John Callaway
Pakistan: Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities
In recent years, Pakistan has assumed a major role in the international scene. But as a relatively new country - albeit one with ancient traditions - how is ...

George Washington's Secret Navy: <br/>How the American Revolution went to sea

3/14/2009

James L. Nelson
George Washington's Secret Navy:
How the American Revolution went to sea
Tricky situation here. It's 1775, and you need to prepare for battle against the world's most powerful fighting force. You know quite a bit about combat on...

3/14/2009

Robert Patton
Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom & Fortune in the American Revolution
The British Royal Navy ruled the sea with a fleet of warships that could outrun and outgun any other nation with ease. At the outset of the American ...

3/17/2009

Andrew Meier
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
Nearly everyone knows what life on Her Majesty's Secret Service is like: martinis, danger, and the best gadgets England has to offer, with a Bond girl waiting at the...

3/19/2009

David Bellavia
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
His grandmother told a young David Bellavia to always fight fair, and never hit an opponent when he wasn't looking. In the Second Battle of Fallujah, however...

3/23/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
James A. Taylor
First Lt. James A. Taylor was serving in South Vietnam as Executive Officer of B Troop, First Cavalry, Americal Division on November 8, 1967 when he was ...

3/23/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Robert R. Ingram
March 28, 1966. It was called "Operation Indiana", a blocking mission in the Quang Ngai Province of Vietnam. When C Company, First Battalion, 7th Marines ...

3/27/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Commit to Courage
The Medal of Honor is America's highest military award for valor in combat against an enemy force. It is reserved for those moments after the outcome ...

April

The Global Economic Crisis: <br/>What Does It Mean for U.S. National Security?

4/2/2009

Front & Center with John Callaway
The Global Economic Crisis:
What Does It Mean for U.S. National Security?
As recent history has shown, economic turmoil can have unexpected consequences. While democracy in the United States narrowly emerged unscathed from the ...

The Bitter Road to Freedom:<br/>A New History of the Liberation of Europe

4/9/2009

William Hitchcock
The Bitter Road to Freedom:
A New History of the Liberation of Europe
A small village, somewhere in Europe - a parade of American troops are driving through town, and crowds have gathered on both sides of the street to cheer. ...