University Of Alaska Anchorage: Chartwell Lecture, Nov. 30: Professor James Muller Presents 'Churchill At War On The ...

Press release from the University of Alaska Anchorage:

November 29, 2021

Chartwell Lecture: Churchill at War on the NilePresented by James W. MullerThursday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.Online: Join us on Zoom (Zoom ID: 880 6516 5257 | Zoom Passcode: Chartwell)In-person: ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 120 (Limited in-person audience
of up to 42 people)

The River War, Winston Churchill’s second book, describes the reconquest of the Sudan from the
Islamist regime of the Dervishes by an Anglo-Egyptian army commanded by General Herbert
Kitchener, 1896-99. Churchill participated in the campaign as an officer and a war
correspondent, charging with the cavalry at the climactic battle of Omdurman. His
book, published in two volumes in 1899, is the most impressive of five books he wrote
before he entered Parliament in 1901 at the age of 26. Abridged into a single volume
three years later, it has been out of print in its unabridged version for more than
120 years. After 32 years of work, Professor James W. Muller has edited the definitive edition
of the book, published by St. Augustine’s Press, which won the 2021 Literary Award from the International
Churchill Society. Professor Muller will tell the story of preparing the new edition
and speak about the significance of the book for understanding Churchill’s thoughts
on empire, war, race and religion.

About the speakerJames W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage,
where he has taught since 1983, and Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of
the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and
served as a White House Fellow in 1983–84 and an Academic Visitor at the London School
of Economics and Political Science in 1988–89. Professor Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (University of Nebraska Press, 1988), Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years
Later (University of Missouri Press, 1999), of Churchill’s interwar books of essays, Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books, 2009) and Great Contemporaries (ISI Books, 2012), and of Churchill’s earlier book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols. (St. Augustine’s Press, 2021). He is at work on a new edition of Churchill’s autobiography, My Early Life: A Roving Commission.

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