Arthur L. Herman
Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American popular historian, currently serving as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute.[1] He generally employs the Great Man perspective in his work, which is 19th Century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook.
Biography
Herman received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. He spent a semester abroad at Edinburgh University in Scotland.[1] His 1984 dissertation dealt with the political thought of early-17th-century French Huguenots. His father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. In 1987 Herman married Beth Marla Warshofsky.[2]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Herman taught at Sewanee: The University of the South, George Mason University, Georgetown and The Catholic University of America. Herman has also appeared at the Smithsonian's Campus on the Mall program.[3]
His 2001 book on the Scottish Enlightenment, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2008, he added to his body of work Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[4]
Works
- The Idea Of Decline In Western History, Free Press, 1997-01-08 ISBN 978-0-684-82791-9.
- Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press, 1999-12-02 ISBN 978-0-684-83625-6.
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Three Rivers Press 2002-09-24 ISBN 978-0-609-80999-0.
- To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, HarperCollins, 2004-10-26 ISBN 978-0-06-053424-0.
- Gandhi and Churchill:The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Bantam, 2008-04-29 ISBN 978-0-553-80463-8.
- Freedom's Forge: How American Business produced victory in World War II, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4
- The Cave and the Light: Plato vs. Aristotle and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization, Random House, 2013-10
- Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, Random House, 2016-06-14 ISBN 978-0-812-99488-9
References
- 1 2 http://www.hudson.org/experts/1005-arthur-herman
- ↑ Facebook page for the book, "How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It"
- ↑ Author spotlight Random House retrieved 2008-07-07
- ↑ 2009 Pulitzer Prizes retrieved 2016-08-29