Melvyn P. Leffler

Melvyn P. Leffler is an American historian, and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia.^[1]

Life

He graduated from Cornell University in 1966, and from Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in 1972. He taught at Vanderbilt University. He was Harmsworth Professor, at the University of Oxford from 2002-2003. He was Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, from 1997-2001. In 1994, he was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations .

Awards

• 2008 George Louis Beer Prize, for For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
• 2004-2005 Randolph Jennings Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
• 2004-2005 Henry Kissinger Fellow, Library of Congress ^[2]
• 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow
• 1993 Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War
• 1993 Ferrell Prize
• 1993 Hoover Prizes
• 1993, 1997 Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute Fellowship
• 1973, 1984-85 American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, Grants-in-Aid
• 1984-85 Lehrman Institute Fellowship

Works

• "Inside Enemy Archives: The Cold War Reopened", Foreign Affairs, July/August 1996

• For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Macmillan. 2007. ISBN 9780809097173. http://books.google.com/books?id=yFgLDC7n_eAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler+mankind&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Olav Njølstad, ed (2004). "The Beginning and the End: Time, Context, and the Cold War". The last decade of the Cold War: from conflict escalation to conflict transformation. Routledge. ISBN 9780714685397. http://books.google.com/books?id=YcDfO5V4C_YC&pg=PA29&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&lr=&cd=13#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• Odd Arne Westad, ed (2000). "Briging It Together: Parts and the Whole". Reviewing the Cold War: approaches, interpretations, and theory. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780714681207. http://books.google.com/books?id=QfgeSqbznVUC&pg=PA43&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=6#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• Paul Kennedy, William I. Hitchcock, ed (2000). "American Grand Strategy from World War to Cold War 1940-1950". From war to peace: altered strategic landscapes in the twentieth century. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300080100. http://books.google.com/books?id=9ltvaFbwYxIC&pg=PA55&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&lr=&cd=16#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• Eric Foner, ed (1994). The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953. Hill and Wang. ISBN 9780809015740. 
• Gordon Martel, ed (1994). "The interpretative wars over the Cold War 1945-1960". American foreign relations reconsidered, 1890-1993. Routledge. ISBN 9780415104760. http://books.google.com/books?id=g7Fd_HQgjysC&pg=PA106&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=10#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson, ed (2004). "National Security". Explaining the history of American foreign relations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521540353. http://books.google.com/books?id=4_DWQ7Y0ZbIC&pg=PA123&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=4#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false.  (2nd edition)
• A Preponderance of Power: National Security, The Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press. 1992. ISBN 9780804722186. http://books.google.com/books?id=pIIeG_yn72wC&pg=PP1&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&lr=&cd=26#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Loyd E. Lee, ed (1991). "Adherence to Agreements: Yalta and the Experiences of the Early Cold War". World War II: crucible of the contemporary world: commentary and readings. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780873327329. http://books.google.com/books?id=Akz0H1zGFwoC&pg=PA325&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=9#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• Ellis Wayne Hawley, ed (1981). "Herbert Hoover, the "New Era," and American Foreign Policy 1921-1929". Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: studies in New Era thought and practice. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9780877451099. http://books.google.com/books?id=8R4UmnJhxLoC&pg=PA148&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Melvyn%20P.%20Leffler&f=false. 
• The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933. University of North Carolina Press. 1979. ISBN 9780807813331. 

Editor

• Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey Legro, ed (2008). To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195369410. http://books.google.com/books?id=AFi9nR1gCNYC&pg=PP1&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Melvyn P. Leffler, David S. Painter, ed (1994). Origins of the Cold War: an international history. Routledge. ISBN 9780415096942. http://books.google.com/books?id=wb8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Melvyn+P.+Leffler&source=bl&ots=nbzz4JH116&sig=ebNU9YTryJCTV6h0hZRvnFrtW8g&hl=en&ei=pfI4S9H9FI_kNZPQzYcJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCAQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

External links

• "Capsule Reviews: For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War", Foreign Affairs, G. John Ikenberry, November/December 2007
• "Capsule Reviews: A Preponderance Of Power: National Security, The Truman Administration, And The Cold War", Foreign Affairs, Gaddis Smith, Spring 1992
• "Capsule Reviews: To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine", Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead, November/December 2008