Jonas, Manfred

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JONAS, Manfred

JONAS, Manfred. American (born Germany), b. 1927. Genres: History, International relations/Current affairs. Career: John Bigelow Professor of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 1986-, now emeritus (Assistant to Associate Professor, 1963-67; Professor, 1967-81; Washington Irving Professor in Modern Literary and Historical Studies, 1981-86). Visiting Professor in American History, Freie University, Berlin, 1959-62; Associate Professor of History, Widener College, Chester, PA, 1962-63; Dr. Otto Salgo Visiting Professor of American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, 1983-84. Publications: Isolationism in America, 1935-1941, 1966, rev. ed., 1990; The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History, 1984. EDITOR: Die Unabhangigkeitserklarung der Vereinigten Staaten, 1965; American Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century, 1967; (with F.L. Loewenheim and H.D. Langley) Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence, 1975, rev. ed., 1990; (with R.V. Wells) New Opportunities in a New Nation: The Development of New York after the Revolution, 1982. Address: Dept. of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, U.S.A.