AHC Insiders Events & Perks
Thank you for joining our exclusive membership group – AHC Insiders. As a thank you for your generous support, please enjoy the following events and benefits. For more on AHC Insiders, click here. Free admission to all Atlanta History Center Lectures May 2012  Livingston Lecture: Jeff Shaara, A Blaze of GloryWednesday, May 30, 2012 8:00 PM  In the first novel of a new trilogy, New York Times-bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’s bloodiest and most iconic engagements, the Battle of Shiloh. Drawing on meticulous research, Shaara dramatizes the key actions and decisions of the commanders on both sides: Joseph E. Johnston, U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, P.G.T. Beauregard, and the illustrious Nathan Bedford Forrest. Here, too, are the thoughts and voices of the junior officers, conscripts, and enlisted men who gave all for their cause.
Jeff Shaara is the author of The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Killer Angels.
In Elusive Victories, Polsky provides a study of six wartime presidents, drawing lessons about the limit of presidential power during conflict. He examines Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush, to show how each overestimated his power as commander-in-chief. In each, the presidents’ resources did not match the recurring challenges of war. With insight, Polsky identifies issues that inform current and future policymakers in the first comprehensive account of presidential leadership during wartime.
Andrew J. Polsky is professor of political science at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. A former editor of Polity, he is the author of The Rise of the Therapeutic State and has written for Political Science Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, American Politics Research, and other journals.
Alexandra Fuller has written four books of nonfiction. In 2002, her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book, the Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Best Adult Nonfiction, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her other works include, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier and The Legend of Colton H Bryant. Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, National Geographic, Vogue, and Granta. This lecture will be held at the Margaret Mitchell House.
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Members-Only Genealogy Workshop: Life in the Past Lane with Archivist Sue VerHoef
Elson Lecture: Andrew Polsky, Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War 
