William Taubman
William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1940 in New York City ) is an American political scientist .
Life
William Chase Taubman attended the Bronx High School of Science and studied at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1962 . He then studied at Columbia University , where he received his degree in 1965 and in 1969 received his doctorate . He is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College . He is mainly concerned with the time and the presidency of Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev . His biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era , published about him in 2004 , won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography and a National Book Critics Circle Award .
plant
- The View from Lenin Hills. Soviet Youth in Ferment . Coward-McCann, New York 1967
- Stalin's American Policy. From Entente to Détente to Cold War . (1982)
- Moscow Spring . (1989)
- Khrushchev. The Man and His Era . (2003)
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Gorbachev. His Life and Times . WW Norton & Company, 2017, ISBN 978-0-393-64701-3 .
- German translation: Gorbachev. The man and his time. A biography . CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-70044-6 .
Web links
Commons : William Taubman - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Short biography and reviews of works by William Taubman at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about William Taubman in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taubman, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taubman, William Chase (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |