HW Brands

HW Brands

Henry William Brands (born August 7, 1953 in Portland , Oregon ) is an American educator , professor , author and historian .

Life

Brands grew up near Portland , Oregon . After graduating from high school from a Jesuit school, he studied mathematics and history at Stanford University in California . He graduated there in 1975 with a degree in history. He then worked in the family company's cutlery shop for a year before going to high school as a math teacher, where he taught for five years. During this time, he took his Master of Arts (MA) exam at Reed College in Portland in 1978, which was followed in 1981 by the Master of Science (MS) exam in mathematics.

Brands decided to study history after teaching and therefore went to the University of Texas at Austin . One of his teachers there was the historian Robert A. Divine . He received his doctorate in 1985 with a thesis on the foreign policy of the Eisenhower administration during the Cold War .

Brands spent a year as a historian in the Law School of the University of Texas and then taught for another year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee . From 1987 to 2005 he worked at Texas A&M University in College Station . Since 1985 he has been Professor of History at the University of Texas.

Since the late 1980s, Brands has written more than two dozen books on US history, the country's presidents, and US international relations. From 2015 to 2016 he was a Fellow for International Affairs at the private Council on Foreign Relations and worked for the United States Department of Defense.

Publications

• Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy . 1988, ISBN 0-231-06526-4 .
• The Specter of Neutralism: The United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947-1960 . 1989, ISBN 0-231-07168-X
• Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961 . Oxford University Press, New York City / London 1991, ISBN 0-19-506707-X .
• The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s . St. Martin's Press, New York City 1995, ISBN 0-312-13594-7 .
• The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power . Oxford University Press, New York City / London 1997, ISBN 0-19-507888-8 .
• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin . Doubleday, New York City 2000, ISBN 0-385-49328-2 .
• Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence . Doubleday, New York City 2006, ISBN 0-385-50737-2 .
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 . Doubleday, New York City 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-53358-4 .
• American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 . Penguin Books, New York City et al. a. 2011, ISBN 978-0143119555 .
• What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush . Cornell University Press, New York City 2015, ISBN 978-0-8014-5246-8 .
• Making the Unipolar Moment. US Foreign Policy and the Rise of Post-Cold War Order . Cornell University Press, New York City 2016, ISBN 978-1-5017-0272-3 .

Web links

• Historian's website (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George W. Bush as a failure. In: FAZ . October 28, 2014, p. 6.