Sam Kleiner: The Flying Tigers
In partnership with Bay Books, the Coronado Library will host author Sam Kleiner Saturday, December 1st at 3 pm to discuss his book The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan. Kleiner shares the thrilling story of the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Samuel Kleiner is a historian and lawyer based in New York City. He was raised in Tucson, Arizona and holds a BA from Northwestern University, a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. The talk will be held in the Winn Room and will be followed by Q&A and a book signing reception.