David Fromkin

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "David Fromkin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

David Fromkin
Born	(1932-08-27)August 27, 1932 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	June 11, 2017(2017-06-11) (aged 84) New York, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Institutions	Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of 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.^[1] The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award^[1] and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.^[2] Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners.

Life

Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932.^[2]

He died on June 11, 2017, in New York City due to heart failure; he was 84.^[1]

Career

A graduate of the

He retired as professor emeritus in 2013.[1]

Assessment

Selected bibliography

External videos
Booknotes interview with Fromkin on In the Time of the Americans, October 22, 1995, C-SPAN
Presentation by Fromkin on The Way of the World, March 1, 1999, C-SPAN

• OCLC 53814831
  (paperback)
• “Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements.” In The Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, ed. Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian, 134–145. New York: Columbia University press, 2004.
• Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004)
  ISBN 0-375-72575-X
  (paperback)
• Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (2002)
  ISBN 0-684-86953-5^[5]
• In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World (1995)
  ISBN 0-679-76728-2
  (paperback)
• The Independence of Nations (1981)
• The Importance of T. E. Lawrence. From The New Criterion Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991.
• The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems (1975)
• "The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners" (2007)
• The Way of the World (1998)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Roberts, Sam (June 15, 2017). "David Fromkin, Professor and Author on Mideast, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Obituary. "RIP: Prof. David Fromkin Dies at 84". Retrieved June 14, 2017.
3. ISBN 9781315633237
   . Retrieved April 22, 2022. In a widely-praised book on the war, historian David Fromkin asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of "altruism" and "moral fervor" alone, forging "a new kind of approach to the use of power in world politics" as they "reacted to the deportation of more than a million Kosovars from their homeland" by bombing so as to save them "from horrors of suffering, or from death".
4. ^ "A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo". chomsky.info. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
5. ISBN 9780684869537
   . Retrieved April 22, 2022.

External links

• Faculty Profile of Prof. Fromkin at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• RIP: Prof. David Fromkin Dies at 84.

This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e