Professor Melvin Leer's insights on 'Confronting Saddam Hussein' and the enduring impact of 9/11|Melvyn Leffler,Professor,University of Virginia 00:10:00
Melvyn P. Leffler is Emeritus Professor of American History at The University of Virginia. He is the author of For the Soul of Mankind (2007), which won the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association, and A Preponderance of Power (1993), which won the Bancroft, Hoover, and Ferrell Prizes. Most recently, he published Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 (2017).