John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt: Conflict and the Common Good (hybrid)

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Barbara A. Perry, Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program, Miller Center, will introduce her latest book, Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt. She will explore two of the most powerful political dynasties in 20th-century America that were destined to clash over personal and policy differences. To win the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy needed Democratic Party power broker Eleanor Roosevelt’s support. But how to earn it? We begin with their crucial summit at Eleanor’s Hyde Park home. Would these two consummate politicians bury the hatchet in the bucolic woods surrounding Val-Kill Cottage - or in each other?

Faculty Speaker Biography
 

Barbara A. Perry, J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance and Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program, Miller Center, University of Virginia

Barbara A. Perry is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the UVA’s Miller Center, where she co-directs the Presidential Oral History Program. She has authored or edited 17 books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights and liberties. Perry has conducted more than 170 interviews for the Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies and directed the Edward Kennedy Oral History Project. She served as an award-winning U.S. Supreme Court fellow and has worked for both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate. A frequent media commentator, her forthcoming book is Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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More Than The Score

This Lifetime Learning program is part of the More Than The Score faculty lecture series. On the mornings of home football games, hear from some of UVA’s top minds.

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