Marcus Cunliffe
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Marcus Cunliffe (1922-1990) was a British historian and academic, who has written on topics mainly concerning America.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Education
Cunliffe was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Sandhurst and Yale [1], where he was Harkness Fellow [1]. He later served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War.
[edit] Career
Cunliffe lectured at the University of Manchester and the University of Sussex, where he was Professor of American Studies; he was also a visiting professor at Harvard[2]. He is the author of The Nation Takes Shape, a book that talks about the growth of America in its first half-century uner the federal Constitution.
[edit] Personal life
In 1949, he met and married American sculptor Mitzi Solomon. Together, they had a son and two daughters (one of whom is Shay Cunliffe, CDG Award winning costume designer). They divorced in 1971.
[edit] Works
- The American Presidency
- Soldiers and Civilians: The Martial Spirit in America, 1775-1865
- The Literature of the United States (1954)
- George Washington: Man and Monument (1982)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Brian Holden Reid, ‘Cunliffe, Marcus Falkner (1922–1990)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 June 2007
