The Eleanor Roosevelt/ Wendell Willkie Forum - Roads Not Taken by Michael A. Meeropol

Tuesday, July 23

7:30 pm 

As a historian, and  someone who  has lived American history as the  eldest son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Michael will talk about two important  choices the U.S. made in history and a looming choice to be made today. He will discuss the role Wendell Willkie played in America in 1940–1941, examine what many on  the left feared was an incipient American fascism during what was incorrectly called  the “McCarthy Era,” and ask if these stories have any lessons today as we approach a  presidential election in November. Michael A. Meeropol is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England  University in Springfield, Massachusetts. He holds a BA in economics from Swarthmore  College, a BA and MA in economics from Cambridge University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is co-author, with his brother Robert Meeropol, of We Are…