Hess, Gary R.

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HESS, Gary R.

HESS, Gary R. American, b. 1937. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Biography. Career: Bowling Green State University, OH, Professor of History, 1964-, Chairman, History Dept., 1973-81, 1985-92, Acting Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, 1981-82. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, 1979-82; Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, President, 1991. Publications: Sam Higginbottom of Allahabad: Pioneer of Point IV to India, 1967; America Encounters India, 1941-47, 1971; (ed.) America and Russia: Cold War Confrontation to Coexistence, 1973; The United States at War 1941-45, 1985; The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power 1940-1950, 1987; Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War, 1990; Presidential Decisions of rWar: Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, 2001. Address: Dept. of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, U.S.A.