Nationality American Education University of Chicago Role Author | Name David Fromkin Alma mater University of Chicago | |
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Born August 27, 1932 (age 91)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ( 1932-08-27 ) Institutions Boston University
Pardee School of Global Studies Nominations Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Books A Peace to End All Peace, Europe's last summer, The Way of the World: From the, In the time of the Americans, The King and the Cowboy | ||
A peace to end all peace david fromkin summary
David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners
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Life
David Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932. He died in New York City on June 11, 2017.
Career
A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, he is Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, and Law at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Before his career as a historian, Prof. Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser. In the 1972 Democratic primary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey. As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, then as an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Criticism
Noam Chomsky criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed NATO intervention in the Kosovo War.