Videos

Authors Philip Short ("Putin: His Life and Times"), Michael Beckley ("Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China") and Meenakshi Ahamed ("A Matter of Trust: India-U.S. Relations from Truman…

Philip Short talked about his book Mao: A Life, published by Henry and Company. The book is a biography of the late Chinese premier and leader, Mao Tse-Tung. It follows his life from his hum…

Mr. Short talked about his book Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, published by Henry Holt and Company. He described the life of Cambodia’s Pol Pot, the former leader of the Khmer Rouge who ru…

Three biographers discuss their subjects as representative examples of modern visionaries. The panelists are Stanley Wolpert, author of Ghandi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Ghand…