VP & Director of Public Policy for Eastwest Institute, to Lecture at 'Berg
Andrew Nagorski, Vice President and Director of Public Policy for EastWest Institute, will deliver a lecture, “1989: Why the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” on Tuesday, September 15, at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Friday, September 4, 2009 11:22 AM
The talk, the first in the College’s year-long series The Legacy of 1989: Twenty Years in the Post-Communist World, is free and open to the public.
Prior to his work at EastWest Institute, Nagorski spent more than three decades as an award-winning foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He served as Newsweek’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin. He served two tours in Moscow, first in the early 1980s and then in the mid-1990s. In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. He has been honored three times by the Overseas Press Club for his reporting. From January 2000 to July 2008, Nagorski served as senior editor for Newsweek International, handling the editorial cooperation between the parent magazine and its expanding network of foreign language editions.
In 1988, Nagorski served as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. In recent years, he has also served as an adjunct professor at Bard College’s Center for Globalization and International Affairs, teaching a course on international affairs writing.
Nagorski is the author of the non-fiction books Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union and The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe. His first novel, Last Stop Vienna, about a young German who joins the early Nazi movement and then is propelled into a confrontation with Hitler, was on the Washington Post’s bestseller list. His latest non-fiction book is The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
