Nick Bunker is the author of Making Haste From Babylon a History of the Mayflower Pilgrims A former investment banker and journalist for the Financial Times he served for many years on the board of the Freud Museum London In this episode he discusses his book An Empire on the Edge How Britain Came to Fight America for which he won the 2015 George Washington Book Prize Mr Bunker spoke at the Michelle Smith Lecture Series at the Washington Library on March 16 2016