Robert Dallek

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Robert Dallek (born May 16, 1934 in New York ) is an American historian . He taught at Boston University until his retirement in 2004. His main areas of work were foreign policy and the biographies of various presidents of the United States in the 20th century.

Life

Dallek studied history at the University of Illinois . In 1964 he graduated from Columbia University , New York City with a dissertation on the historian William E. Dodd (1869-1940). He then taught at the University of California in Los Angeles . In 1979 he received the Bankcroft Prize from Columbia University for his work on Franklin D. Roosevelt and American foreign policy. From 1994 to 1995 he was visiting professor at the University of Oxford . He was then a professor of history at Boston University . In 2004/2005 he was visiting professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . His book, An Unfinished Life. John F. Kennedy 1917–1963 is considered "one of the best and most reliable" Kennedy biographies today.

Dallek has been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994 .

Works (selection)

  • Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd . Oxford University Press, New York 1968
  • 1898. McKinley's Decision. The United States Declares War on Spain . Chelsea House, New York 1969
  • The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1970
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 . Oxford University Press, New York 1979
  • The American Style of Foreign Policy. Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs . Knopf, New York 1983
  • Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984
  • Lone Star Rising. Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1908-1960 . Oxford University Press, New York 1991
  • Hail to the chief. The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents . Hyperion, New York 1996
  • Flawed Giant. Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1961-1973 . Oxford University Press, New York 1998
  • An unfinished life. John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 . Little, Brown, and Co., Boston 2003 (German: John F. Kennedy. An unfinished life . Translated by Klaus Binder, Bernd Leineweber, Peter Torberg , DVA, Stuttgart 2003)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President . Oxford University Press, New York 2004
  • Nixon and Kissinger. Partners in Power . HarperCollins, New York 2007
  • The Lost Peace. Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945–1953 . HarperCollins, New York 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Fluck , The Fallen Hero. The Kennedy myth from a cultural studies point of view , in: Mythen Europäische Vol. 7. Regensburg 2009. P. 90.
  2. ↑ shafr.org (accessed March 3, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Dallek, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City