Dinner Speaker
Lynne Olson

Author of her fourth book “Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill To Power And Helped Save England .” She has been reporter and correspondent major newspapers as well as a professor of journalism and a freelance writer. Previous books have won the best book award by Publishers Weekly and the Christopher Award.

A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II.

On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history. The outcome of these debates brought Churchill to power as Prime Minister and helped set the future course for Britain—indeed, perhaps, the world.