graham, the co-owner of. the bookstore, along with my wife alice, lissa muscatine and we're very to be hosting professor robert small, who's to discuss his new book, mr. churchill, in the white house the untold story of a prime minister and presidents. for nearly 40 years, bob taught at notre dame and is chair emeritus in american studies and journalism. he's written previously on the american presidency and american political culture and contemporary communication, other subjects. but also harbored a lifelong fascination with winston so much so that a special section of his personal library is devoted to and volumes about the great british statesman. bob's new book represents, in his words, a of literary marriage between his longtime interests in the us presidency and churchill. it's focused on the british leaders visits to the white house under roosevelt and later under eisenhower. visits that were not unusual in cases for their duration sometimes lasting several weeks. but they took on diplomatic military significance as churchill used them. as bob writes to troll washington with his and views and hopes of