Weinstein, Allen

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WEINSTEIN, Allen

WEINSTEIN, Allen. American, b. 1937. Genres: History, Politics/ Government, International relations/Current affairs. Career: President and CEO, Center for Democracy, Washington, D.C., since 1985; United Nations Peace Medal, 1986, Council of Europe Silver Medal, 1990; Professor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1966-81; Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and Executive Ed., Washington Quarterly, 1981-83; President, Robert Maynard Hutchins CSDI, Santa Barbara, 1984; Executive Director, The Democracy Program, Washington, D.C., 1982-83; Acting President, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C., 1983-84; Professor, University Professor of History, Boston University, 1985-89. Publications: Prelude to Populism: Origins of the Silver Issue, 1970; Freedom and Crisis: An American History, 1974, 3rd ed. 1981; Between the Wars: American Foreign Policy from Versailles to Pearl Harbor, 1978; Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, 1978; rev. ed. 1997; The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America, 1997. EDITOR: (with F.O. Gatell) American Themes: Essays in Historiography, 1968; (with F.O. Gatell) American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader, 1968, 3rd ed. 1979; (with F.O. Gatell) The Segregation Era 1863-1954, 1970; (gen.) Random House Readings in American History, 6 vols., 1970; (co-) The Growth of American Politics, vols., 1972; (with M. Maoz) Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, 1981. Address: The Center for Democracy, 1101 15th St. N.W., Ste. 505, Washington, DC 20005, U.S.A.