Author Jon Gegenheimer, Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court, will discuss his latest book Churchill vs. Hitler, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 6, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and open to the public. There is no registration.

Churchill vs. Hitler is a novel that revolves around an epic golf match in Sweden on June 5, 1939 between Churchill and Hitler, and it tells us how that classic encounter determined the outcome of the Second World War outcome and the fate of Western civilization.

After practicing law full-time for 18 years, Jon Gegenheimer, a native of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, was elected as the Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court in 1987. He was re-elected in 1991 after garnering 80 percent of the vote and was unopposed for re-election in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2021. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Loyola University of the South in 1967; a Juris Doctor degree at Loyola University College of Law, where he was a member of the Loyola Law Review, in 1970; and a Master of Laws degree at Tulane University in 1981.

Throughout his law school, professional, and public service years (1967 to present), Gegenheimer has authored myriad trial and appellate briefs and journal articles in the areas of commercial, criminal, maritime, and elections law. Churchill vs. Hitler is his fourth novel.

For more information regarding this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.