RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its presentation, December 3, 2025, at 11 am at Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich. The program will also be shown on Zoom at https://bit.ly/30IBj21 and on local cable channels 24 (Verizon) and 79 (Optimum)
Benn Steil, PhD
“The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century”
Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most fascinating, “almost-president” in American history. As FDR’s third-term vice-president and a hero to many progressives, he lost his place on the 1944 Democratic ticket in a wild open convention, resulting in Harry Truman becoming president upon FDR’s death. The circumstances around Wallace’s defeat have been characterized as corrupt and the results catastrophic, leading to decades of a devastating and unnecessary Cold War.
Based upon striking new findings from Russian, FBI and other archives Benn Steil paints a decidedly less heroic portrait of the man, the events surrounding his fall, and the world that might have been under his presidency.
The author of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War and The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a New World Order, Dr. Benn Steil is a prominent American economist and Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York. He is also the founding editor of the scholarly journal International Finance.
Dr. Steil holds a BSC in economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennnsylvania and a PhD in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University.
Our next presentation, on December 10, will be Robert Blenderman, President of Greenwich Hospital, “Rooted in Care, Growing with the Community, Greenwich Hospital’s Journey Ahead.”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00. For additional information, including parking, see
www.greenwichrma.org/upcoming-speakers.
