“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.” Talk, with comment by Robin Kelley.
UCLA Department of History, Bunche Hall 6th floor conference room. Monday Dec. 3, 3-5pm. Sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History; Co-sponsored with US History Colloquium.
The Huntington – Institute on California and the West: Nov. 30
“How We Forgot the Cold War”: Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Fri. Nov. 30, 12 noon, Seaver Classroom 3.
PEN Center USA “Go West” Reading Series: Nov. 17
“How We Forgot the Cold War.”
PEN Center USA “Go West” Reading Series.
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027Nov. 17, 2012, 2:00p0m.
http://www.penusa.org/go-west-reading-series-fall-events
Book Soup, Q&A with Oliver Stone: Nov. 2
Q&A with Oliver Stone, author of The Untold History of the United States.
Book Soup, 8818 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90069
Nov. 2, 2012, 7:00pm.
Occidental College, Los Angeles
“How We Forgot the Cold War”: History Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles.April 16, 2013.
Beneath The Surface: KPFK Nov. 9
Host Suzi Weissman talks about “How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America” with Jon Wiener:
KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles, Fri November 9, 5:00pm.
archived at www.kpfk.org.
West Hollywood Book Fair: Sept. 30
“How We Forgot the Cold War.”
Panel with Bill Boyarsky, Joe Matthews, moderator.
West Hollywood Book Fair
West Hollywood Library and West Hollywood Park,
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. Sept. 30, 2012, 10:30
http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/?p=6644
Forgetting the Cuban Missile Crisis: LA Times, 10/14
“The ’13 Days in October,” 50 Years Later.” Conservatives at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis accused President Kennedy of capitulation in the Cuban missile crisis. No more.
Los Angeles Times op-ed page, Oct. 14, 2012.
http://lat.ms/RqcE8r
Cold War Elvis: The Daily Beast, 10/14
“Elvis Presley: America’s Secret Cold War Weapon.” The King of Rock became a one-man special force against the East Germans, even as he questioned the validity of the conflict itself.
(excerpt from How We Forget the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.) The Daily Beast, Oct. 14, 2012.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/14/elvis-presley-america-s-secret-weapon-in-the-cold-war.html
Debate over Whittaker Chambers: Salon.com 10/14
Whittaker Chambers’ grandson David says “Dr. Jon Wiener needs to set some facts straight” 
in his article at Salon.com about visiting the Pumpkin Patch National Historic Landmark . . . .
And Dr. Wiener replies, “Readers can be assured I did indeed visit the site.”
. . . continued at Salon.com HERE
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