Bess Wallace Truman’s 136th Birthday Commemoration - Online Event

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Online

Please join the Truman Presidential Library and Museum and Catherine Grace Katz as she talks about her recent book “The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans”. The tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threated to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine uncovers the dramatic untold story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days.

Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 2014, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. The Daughters of Yalta is her first book.

This program is presented in partnership with the Independence Pioneers Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution