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speakers * JOSIAH BUNTING III PAULINE MAIER AKHIL REED AMAR President, The Harry Frank William Rand Kenan, Jr., JOYCE APPLEBY Guggenheim Foundation Professor of American DEBBY APPLEGATE History, MIT SVEN BECKERT

THOMAS BENDER BRANCH BARRETT New-York Historical Society DAVID BLIGHT RIC BURNS RICKEY chairman’s c ouncil DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Documentary Filmmaker President, RIC BURNS Pacific Coast League DAVID CANNADINE ROBERT A. CARO @ 2011 chairman’s council RON CHERNOW SIXTH ANNUAL ANDREW DELBANCO ANDREW ROBERTS ANDREW DELBANCO Julian Clarence Levi Historian and author ERIC FONER Professor in the Humanities, @ HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. and Director of American Studies, DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Columbia University JOHN STEELE GORDON SHARON ROBINSON HAROLD HOLZER with Educational Consultant, H DANIEL WALKER HOWE Major League Baseball onorary Co-Chairs RICHARD HAASS KENNETH T. JACKSON Weekend EDWARD P. JONES President, istory Council on Foreign Relations DAVID KENNEDY H * JILL LEPORE GIDEON ROSE PAULINE MAIER Editor, Foreign Affairs STEVEN MINTZ $ DANIEL WALKER HOWE DAVID NASAW Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, COKIE ROBERTS Friday, april 8 Oxford University, England; and SIMON SCHAMA Professor of History Emeritus, Andrew Ross Sorkin Saturday, April 9 STACY SCHIFF UCLA Author and BENNO C. SCHMIDT Chief Mergers & Acquisitions 2011 RUSSELL SHORTO DAVID KENNEDY Reporter, The New York Times Donald J. McLachlan PETER SILVER Professor of History, Emeritus, JEAN EDWARD SMITH Stanford University LESLEY STAHL Co-Director, The Bill Lane Center for the American West ROBERT A.M. STERN BRET STEPHENS RICHARD SYLLA * Foreign Affairs Columnist, SEAN WILENTZ Wall Street Journal MICHAEL LONG GORDON WOOD Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Metropolitan Club Peace and Conflict Studies, New York city Elizabethtown College JAY WINIK Author and historian

S aturday, April 9, 2011

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and attend the 8:30 am Br eakfast and Opening Session 11:15 am Members choose one SIXTH ANNUAL of the following sessions: 9:00 AM What’s Next for the Economy: A Look Ahead When Compromise Serves Us All Join Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times reporter and From the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 to the author of Too Big to Fail, as he considers the world’s inter- recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care connected financial markets and takes a look at where the Act, compromise has been essential to America’s political and 9 eekend Daniel Walker Howe, 5 economy is heading. social dialogue. Join noted historians

David M. Kennedy, Pauline Maier * and as they explore how with W compromise, along with impassioned debate, continues to be History the engine powering our ever-evolving country. 10:15 am Members choose one 0 of the following sessions: April 1947: Friday, April 8 black tie Jackie Robinson Takes the Field April 1865 On April 15, 1947, an infielder named Jackie Robinson, recruited 6:00 pm cocKTAILS in the Great Hall 7:00 pm dinnER Travel back to one month that defined a crucial turning point by Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey, made his debut in West Lounge in American history: April 1865. Author Jay Winik takes us on and became the first African-American to play in the Major PRESENTATION of the 2011 New-York Historical Society a journey that began with the Civil War’s denouement with the Leagues. Baseball, America — and New York — would never American History Book Prize frenzied fall of Richmond, General Robert E. Lee’s harrowing be the same. Join Robinson’s daughter, Sharon Robinson, retreat, the Battle of Appomattox, the assassination of President along with grandson of Rickey, Branch Barrett Rickey, and REMARKS Lincoln, and ended in a new beginning for America. Michael Long, noted Robinson historian, as they discuss Roger Hertog, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Robinson’s remarkable, Hall of Fame career that left an indelible Join the New-York Historical Society in honoring the author Gen. George C. Marshall: Civis Americanus mark on baseball, the burgeoning civil rights movement, and of this year’s best book in the field of American history or biography. Celebrate the life and legacy of Nobel Prize for Peace recipient the country.

General George C. Marshall, America’s foremost soldier during * World War II. Authors Si Bunting and Andrew Roberts 0Saturday, April 9 Business Attire join us in conversation about the former Secretary of State and author of the “Marshall Plan,” which revitalized a devastated 8:30 AM Breakfast and opening session 12:30 PM luncheon and Discussion Europe, helped contain the spread of Communism, and in the President’s Ballroom redefined U.S. foreign policy. Nuclear Proliferation 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM SPEAKER SESSIONS

Into the Deep In a world where WikiLeaks has added a new dynamic, Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass 12:30 pm lunchEON AND DISCUSSION in the President’s Ballroom Delve deep into the dramatic run of the American whaling is joined by analyst Gideon Rose and columnist industry with author Andrew Delbanco and documentary Bret Stephens to examine the nuclear threat we continue to This year at the filmmaker Ric Burns, as they explore how the industry became face in the post-Cold War era. Can international leaders ensure intricately bound with the rise of American commerce, culture, mETROPOLITAN CLUB the continuity of a world free of nuclear warfare — especially in and capitalism — almost to the point of the whale’s extinction. 1 East 60th Street in New York City the age of global terrorism? New York City