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The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony

Wed. February 3rd, 2021
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While reporting and analysis of U.S. foreign policy rarely focuses on personal, humanitarian-focused work, the stories of those who advance America’s actions should not be lost in the bureaucracy.  

Join us for a conversation on one of the U.S. State Department’s greatest humanitarians, Bob Gersony, and the stories that emerged from Gersony’s tenure around the globe. Featuring Robert D. Kaplan, author of recently released The Good American and Susan Glasser of the New Yorker.  

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Robert D. D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel, including The Good American, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. 

Susan Glasser

Susan Glasser is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Trump’s Washington. Glasser, with her husband Peter Baker, is the author of Kremlin Rising, about Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and most recently The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.