CANCELED: Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
Speaker:
Andrew Preston
Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy, Statecraft, and History, University of Virginia
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | 12:15 - 1:30 PM | SRH 3.122, The LBJ School of Public Affairs
Due to inclement weather, this event will be canceled and rescheduled for a later date.
On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, the Clements Center for National Security, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the UT-Austin History Department will host Andrew Preston for a book talk on his new release Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security. The event will be held in SRH 3.122, The LBJ School of Public Affairs, from 12:15-1:30 PM, and will be free and open to the public.
Andrew Preston is the W.L. Lyons Brown Jr. Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy and Statecraft, and Professor of History, at the University of Virginia. Before moving to UVA, Preston taught for 20 years at Cambridge University in the UK, and in 2021 he served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He has published 11 books, most recently Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security (Harvard, 2025), and is currently researching a book on the United States and the origins of World War II in Asia and the Pacific.