Description:LBJ School Professor Jeremi Suri will read and sign his new book “Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama" at BookPeople in Austin on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

About the book: Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri—Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers—looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer failed states around the world and what it should avoid

About the author: Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Suri is also a professor of history. He is the author of five books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. Professor Suri's research and teaching have received numerous prizes. In 2007 Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences. His writings appear widely in blogs and print media. Professor Suri is also a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs.