Kosciuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time - presentation & book signing by Alex Storozynski

It was Kosciuszko's strategy that won the Battle of Saratoga - the turning point of the American Revolution. And while Benedict Arnold was the most notorious traitor in American history, few realize that his act of treason was stealing Kosciuszko's plans for West Point to sell to the British. Kosciuszko tried to use his salary as an officer in the Continental Army to buy Black slaves - and free them. After returning to his native Poland, Kosciuszko started an uprising to free the serfs and to win rights for commoners and Jews. The Polish revolutionary struggled against the tyranny of Britain's King George III, Russia's Czarina Catherine the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte.  
 
Alex Storozynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and President and Executive Director of The Kosciuszko Foundation.

His book, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, has won several awards, including the 2010 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.

Storozynski is a former member of the New York Daily News editorial board and former city editor of the New York Sun. In addition to the Pulitzer, Storozynski has received the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Deadline Club Award, the Associated Press editorial writing award and the Silurian Award. In 2011, Poland's President awarded Storozynski with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. This February he received The Lech Walesa Media Award. He is currently working on a documentary film about Kosciuszko.
  
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Call 212 734 2130

THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
 
The mission of the National Arts Club is to stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts and educate the American people in the fine arts. It was founded in 1898 by Charles de Kay, the literary and art critic for The New York Times for 18 years. He and a group of distinguished artists and patrons conceived of a gathering place for artists, patrons and audiences in all the arts.
 
The Club's membership has included three presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight D. Eisenhower and some of the most important artists and arts patrons in America.  
 
The Dramatic Arts are currently represented by Members Martin Scorcese, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Robert Redford and Uma Thurman. The National Arts Club is located in the historic Tilden Mansion, at 15 Gramercy Park South.
 
The Kosciuszko Event 
Will be Wed, May 9, at 8 pm
15 Gramercy Park South
 
Free admission & open to the public.
For Information call: (212) 475-3424

15 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003   
roundtable@thenationalartsclub.org