Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Wednesday, February 26 | 4:30pm

Evan Thomas American Journalist & Author

Best-Selling Author, Evan Thomas takes us on the “Road to Surrender,” a gripping historical narrative that goes behind the scenes of one of history’s most consequential moments – the dropping of the atomic bomb. Drawing on newly accessible diaries of Stimson, Spaatz, and Togo, Evan Thomas brings these historical figures and their profound dilemmas to life, offering an immersive and moving account of their personal thoughts, emotions, and motivations, revealing the immense weight of their decisions.

About the Author

Evan Thomas is the author of eleven books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike’s Bluff, Being Nixon, First, and Road to Surrender. John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, Being Nixon, and First were New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986–96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweek’s fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBS’s Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.

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