James Muller - "Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures"

James W. Muller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he taught from 1983 to 2023, and Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was a White House Fellow in 1983–84 and an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1988–89.

He is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (University of Nebraska Press, 1988), Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later(University of Missouri Press, 1999), and of Churchill’s interwar books of essays, Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books, 2009) and Great Contemporaries (ISI Books, 2012). His definitive edition of Churchill’s earlier book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols. (St. Augustine’s Press, 2020), won the 2021 Winston S. Churchill Literary Award of the International Churchill Society. He is at work on a new edition of Churchill’s autobiography, My Early Life: A Roving Commission, to be published by St. Augustine’s Press this fall. This is Professor Muller’s third stint as a CLAFI lecturer, a distinction that goes only to the best.