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The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a dramatic account of leaders changing the course of history, told by an author who knew all three of them. These great figures collaborated in the miraculous peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe from Soviet Communism. They reinvigorated their respective countries and the West. They were beacons of optimism cutting through the malaise and despair afflicting 1970s America, strike-ridden and economically moribund post-imperial Britain, and a Catholic Church rocked by social and sexual revolutions.

John O'Sullivan covered the Reagan presidency as a Washington columnist, was a special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and has written regularly on Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church's influence on international relations. He was the editor in chief of National Review, the National Interest, Policy Review, and United Press International, editorial page editor of the New York Post, op-ed and editorial page editor for the London Times, and an editor with the London Daily Telegraph. He is currently editor-at-large for National Review, a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute.

Please RSVP to Richard Weitz at weitz@hudson.org

Lunch will be served.

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