Robert Dallek
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Robert Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
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[edit] Early life
He attended the University of Illinois, graduating with a B.A. in history in June 1955. He then spent several years at Columbia University, gaining an M.A. in February 1957 and his Ph.D in June 1964. While studying for his Ph.D he also taught classes as an Instructor of History at Columbia until 1964.
[edit] Academic career
From 1964 until 1994 he was an Assistant to Full Professor of History at UCLA. By the year 1966 however he became a Graduate Advisor in the department of History at UCLA and served in that position for two years. From 1972 to 1974 he served as Vice Chairman of the Department of History at UCLA. For a time he was at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute as Research Associate, from 1981-1985. In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and from 1994 to 1995 he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary M.A. by Oxford University for his work there. Since 1996 he has been a Visiting Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas. From 1996 he was a Professor of History at Boston University.
[edit] Published Works
[edit] Books
- Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968)
- 1898: McKinley's Decision - The United States Declares War on Spain (New York: Chelsea House, 1969)
- The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970)
- Western Europe (New York: Chelsea House, 1973)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)
- The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs (New York: Knopf, 1983)
- Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-674-77941-9)
- Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1908-1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt as World Leader: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 16 May 1995 (New York: Clarendon Press, 1995)
- Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents (New York: Hyperion, 1996)
- Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1961-1973 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 2003)
- Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Lessons from the Lives and Times of Presidents (Richmond, VA: University of Richmond, 2004)
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (New York: HarperCollins, 2007)
[edit] Journal Articles
- 'Franklin Roosevelt as world leader', The American Historical Review, 76 (1971): 1503-1513
- 'National mood and American foreign policy: a suggestive essay', American Quarterly, 34 (1982): 229-261
- 'Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: the making of a tragedy', Diplomatic History, 20 (1996): 147
- 'Tales of the tapes', Reviews in American History, 26 (1998): 333-338
[edit] Essays in Edited Volumes
- 'American perceptions of the Soviet Union', in Abbott Gleason (ed.), Cold War-Cold Peace: Soviet American Relations, 1933-1983 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975)
- 'Triumphant America in a shaken world', in Sanford J. Ungar (ed.), Estrangement: America and the World(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
[edit] TV appearances
He appeared on The Daily Show in July 2007. Also appeared on SNL in July of 1994.
