David Fromkin (1932–2017)
Teoksen A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East tekijä
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David Henry Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 27, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He worked as a lawyer and investor until becoming a published author in his 40s and a professor in his näytä lisää 60s. He wrote seven books including The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems; A Peace to End All Peace; In the Time of the Americans: F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur - the Generation that Changed America's Role in the World; Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans; Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?; and The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He was a professor at Boston University from 1994 until 2013. He died from heart failure on June 11, 2017 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Tekijän teokset
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) 2,168 kappaletta
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century (1998) 167 kappaletta
The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners (2007) 118 kappaletta
The question of government; an inquiry into the breakdown of modern political systems (1975) 3 kappaletta
صلحی برای پایان همه صلحها 1 kappale
Associated Works
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Avustaja — 1,764 kappaletta
Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Avustaja — 34 kappaletta
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1989 (1989) — Author "Gamblers on the Turkish Brink" — 15 kappaletta
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Triumph of the Dictators" — 14 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1932-08-27
- Kuolinaika
- 2017-06-11
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
- Koulutus
- University of Chicago (BA, JD)
- Ammatit
- professor
- Organisaatiot
- Boston University
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On the other hand, one part I appreciated in the book was the biographical sketches of the royal families of the 19th Century. European royalty were closely related at the time, in ways I often overlook. Fromkin provides a good description of the relationship of the royals of the time, including England's Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales and future Kind Edward VII, Wilhelm II, Nicholas II, etc., along with a brief bio of Theodore Roosevelt. Fromkin also described the changing alliances of the time, and the reasons and power struggles behind the changing alliances, all important considerations in understanding the background of pre-WWI Europe.… (lisätietoja)