Terry Lautz will discuss his new book John Birch: A Life. "This is the remarkable story of who he actually was: an American missionary-turned-soldier who wanted to save China, but became a victim instead." - Oxford Press. Lautz is trustee and director of the Harvard Yenching Institute and visiting professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Thursday, Oct. 13, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Humanities 250.