David Fromkin

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David Fromkin (born August 27, 1932 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † June 11, 2017 in New York City , New York ) was an American lawyer , historian and author .

Life

Fromkin earned his degree at the University of Chicago belonging to University of Chicago Law School and worked as a lawyer . During the Democratic Party's primary elections in the 1972 presidential election, he was the foreign policy advisor to candidate Hubert H. Humphrey . As an attorney, he served as both an advisor on the prosecution and a defense counsel to the US Supreme Military Tribunal. He was a partner in the Simpson Thacher & Bartlett law firm .

Fromkin was Professor of History, International Relations and Law at Boston University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations .

Publications

  • The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems. Scribner, New York City 1975, ISBN 0-684-13845-X .
  • The Independence of Nations. Praeger, New York City 1981, ISBN 0-03-059777-3 .
  • A Peace to End All Peace. Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922. Penguin, London 1989, ISBN 0-14-015445-0 .
    • A Peace to End All Peace. The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. 20th Anniversary Edition. Henry Holt and Co., New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-8050-8809-0 .
  • In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur. The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World. AA Knopf, New York City 1995, ISBN 0-394-58901-7 .
  • The way of the world. From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century. AA Knopf, New York City 1998.
  • Kosovo Crossing; American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkans. Free Press, New York City 1999, ISBN 0-684-86889-X .
  • Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? AA Knopf, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-375-41156-9 .
    • German: Europe's last summer: the seemingly peaceful weeks before the First World War. Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-183-9 .
  • The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. Penguin Press, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-1-59420-187-5 .

Other publications:

  • Lyndon Johnson and Foreign Policy. What the New Documents Show. In: Foreign Affairs 01/02 1995.
  • Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements in: Reeva Spector Simon / Eleanor H. Tejirian: The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 , Columbia University Press, New York City, USA 2004, pp. 134-145.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RIP: Prof. David Fromkin Dies at 84
  2. ↑ The peace that ended all peace. In: FAZ . July 6, 2013, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Fromkin, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, historian, and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2017
Place of death New York City , New York , USA