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Roosevelt and Churchill, The Atlantic Charter: A Risky Meeting at Sea that Saved Democracy<\/em>, by Kluger and his British co-author, Richard Evans, was published in January 2021. <\/p>\n\u201cOver many years, there has been this relationship between Great Britain and the United States that has been mutually beneficial, and beneficial to the world,\u201d said Kluger. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better to show what good things have happened from that relationship than the four days in August 1941 that FDR and Winston Churchill spent meeting at sea off the coast of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt it was timely\u2014particularly with the resurgent \u2018America First\u2019 movement\u2014to remind people of what the two leaders accomplished in the very dark days prior to the United States entering World War II. They met 120 days before Pearl Harbor and discussed many issues related to defeating the Nazis. At the conclusion of their meeting, they issued a joint proclamation, which came to be known as the Atlantic Charter. A little more than 200 words, it covered eight points outlining how civilized nations should act. Since its release, most democratic nations have adhered to the charter\u2019s points and principles, and the nations of the world have avoided another world war.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Trinity, Kluger earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and built his career in private equity, focusing on health care industry investments. He and his wife, Heidi Greene \u201978, P\u201913, reside in Palm Beach, Florida, but maintain a home in Redding, Connecticut. The hour-and-a-half drive from Redding to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, meant invaluable access to a trove of material. Likewise, Kluger\u2019s co-author had important access to the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Kluger\u2019s keen interest in history was sparked by the captivating lectures of then-Northam Professor of History George Cooper. Kluger said he was surprised at Honors Day 1978 to be awarded the George B. Cooper Prize in British History.<\/p>\n
\u201cCooper\u2019s focus was 18th-century Britain, and he was amazing,\u201d said Kluger. Cooper passed away in 1995, but Kluger suspects he would have been pleased about this book. \u201cOther than my mother, George Cooper would have been the proudest.\u201d<\/p>\n