The final talk of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy's Spring colloquia series, featuring Dr. Tim Naftali of New York University. This event is free and open to the public. Come and hear this fascinating exploration of one of our nation's most legendary and enigmatic presidents.

An associate clinical professor of history and public service at NYU and co-director of NYU s Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tim Naftali is a native of Montreal and a graduate of Yale with a doctorate in history from Harvard. Using Soviet-era documents, he and Russian academic Aleksandr Fursenko wrote the prize-winning One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 and Khrushchev s Cold War, the latter winning the Duke of Westminster s Medal for Military Literature in 2007 and inclusion on Foreign Affairs 2014 list of the ten best books on the Cold War. As a consultant to the 9/11 Commission, Naftali wrote a history of US counterterrorism, published as Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, which included an account of the US response to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Naftali came to NYU after serving as the founding director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Naftali, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate and Foreign Affairs, is also seen regularly on television as a commentator on contemporary history. Most recently, he was featured in CNN s The Sixties and The Seventies and in the PBS documentaries, Dick Cavett s Watergate, Dick Cavett s Vietnam and The Bomb.