Dallek, Robert

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DALLEK, Robert

DALLEK, Robert. American, b. 1934. Genres: History, International relations/Current affairs, Biography. Career: Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles (joined faculty as Assistant Professor, 1964); Harmsforth Visiting Professor, Oxford, 1994-95; Boston University, Professor of History, 1996-. Fellow Society of American Historians; Member, Board, of Editors, Reviews in American History. Member of the Council, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and Committee on the History of the Second World War. Instructor in History, Columbia University, NYC, 1960-64. American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow. Publications: Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd, 1968; Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932-45, 1979; The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs, 1983; Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism, 1984; (co-author) The Great Republic: A History of the American People, 3rd ed., 1985, 4th ed., 1991; Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, 1991; Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents, 1996; Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, 1998; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 2003. EDITOR: The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II (reader), 1970; Western Europe, vol. I of Dynamics of World Power: A Documentary History of American Foreign Policy 1945-1973, 1973. Address: 2138 Cathedral Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008-1502, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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