Gordon Wright

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Gordon Wright (April 24, 1912 - January 11, 2000) was a US historian. He has worked on modern European history, particularly French history. He was elected president of the American Historical Association in 1975.

Studied at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington in 1933.
Ph.D. for work on French history at Stanford University in 1939.
worked in the U.S. State Department and US Foreign Service.
was cultural attaché at the American embassy in Paris between 1967 to 1969.
spoke publicly against the Vietnam War.
French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences elected him a foreign honorary member.
was William H. Bonsall Professor in History at Stanford.
Honored Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government .

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The reshaping of French democracy. Introd. by Paul Birdsall, 1948.
France in modern times: 1760 to the present. c1960; 5th ed. France in modern times: from the Enlightenment to the present, c1995.
An age of controversy: discussion problems in twentieth century European history, with Arthur Mejia, Jr., 1963.
Rural revolution in France; the peasantry in the twentieth century , 1964.
France in the twentieth century, c1965.
The ordeal of total war, 1939-1945, 1968.
An age of controversy; discussion problems in twentieth century European history. Edited by Gordon Wright and Arthur Mejia, Jr. Alternate ed., 1973.
Insiders and outliers: the individual in history, c1981.
Between the guillotine and liberty: two centuries of the crime problem in France, 1983.
The transformation of modern France: essays in honor of Gordon Wright, edited by William B. Cohen, c1997.