Professor Brigham on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
With the recent publication of his widely praised new book Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs), Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations Robert Brigham has emerged as one of the most quoted analysts of the Iraq War for the BBC, Los Angeles Times, NPR, USA Today, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, andall told over 100 media outlets worldwide. Brigham's phone really began ringing off the hook as President Bush prepared to travel to Vietnam this past fall, and on January 14 he published commissioned opinion pieces in the Sunday Washington Post and the Independent (London). "The day after Bush's surge talk announcing his new Iraq strategy, I did 16 interviews, and I made sure they spelled and pronounced Vassar correctly in every one of them!" Brigham reported.
Strong reviews of Is Iraq Another Vietnam? have ranged from the New York Review of Books to the Washington Post Book World, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch cited the book as one of the best of 2006. On Monday, February 5, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in Students' Building, Brigham will lecture about his next book, which will explore Iraq in a broader U.S. foreign policy framework. "I will talk about the surge, what we now know about the insurgency and militias, the problems of nation-building, the likely endgame in Iraq, and the lasting legacies of this war," he said. "Vietnam will be a backdrop, but it will not overwhelm the conversation."