A New Beginning? What the United States can do with Europe now.

A lecture by Timothy Garton Ash to mark the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the election of the 44th President of the United States.

Timothy Garton Ash's new book "Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West" will be published in the United States on November 9, the day the Berlin Wall was breached in 1989. He is a Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His previous books include "The Magic Lantern", his eyewitness account of the velvet revolutions of 1989, "The Polish Revolution: Solidarity", "The File: A Personal History", "In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent" and "History of the Present".