Fredrik Logevall

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Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall speaks at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in 2013
Born1963
Alma materSimon Fraser University (BA),
University of Oregon (MA),
Yale University (PhD)

Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. His most recent book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[3][4]

Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, Daily Beast, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.[5][6][7][8]

Biography

Fredrik Logevall was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963, and grew up in Västerås. He emigrated with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia as a youth and before entering Simon Fraser University. He went on to earn an MA in history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in U.S. foreign relations history from Yale University, where he studied under Gaddis Smith and Paul Kennedy. He then taught for eleven years at University of California, Santa Barbara, where, with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, he co-founded the university's Center for Cold War Studies. In 2004, he moved to Cornell University and assumed his present position at Harvard in 2015.

Logevall is a former president of the Society for Historians for American Foreign Relations.[9]

Awards

Logevall has lectured widely around the world on topics relating to diplomatic history and contemporary U.S. politics and foreign policy, and has won numerous honors for his work. His book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (2012), received the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians,[10] the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations,[11] and the American Library in Paris Book Award. His book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. In addition, for previous studies, Logevall received the Stuart L. Bernath book, article, and lecture prizes as well as the Warren F. Kuehl Book Prize (2001) from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; and the W. Turrentine Jackson Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association (2000).

Selected works

Logevall has published numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, including:[12]

References

  1. ^ School, Harvard Kennedy. "Fredrik Logevall". Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  2. ^ "Cornell University - Fredrik Logevall named Cornell vice provost for..."
  3. ^ "Other Prizes | The Society of Authors". societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  4. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  5. ^ Logevall, Gordon M. Goldstein,Fredrik (2016-09-17). "Compared to Trump, Goldwater Was a Sensible Moderate". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-06-24.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  8. ^ "We need Richard Holbrooke more than ever". POLITICO. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  9. ^ "Past Presidents". members.shafr.org. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  10. ^ "2013 Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Random House) | Society of American Historians". sah.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  11. ^ "Past Winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  12. ^ "History News Network, George Mason University, Fredrik Logevall". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
  13. ^ "Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall - PenguinRandomHouse.com".
  14. ^ "Back from the beach: A book report".
  15. ^ "Hope and hubris". The Economist. 25 August 2012.
  16. ^ “CBS News Interview with Fredrik Logevall”
  17. ^ "WNYC Radio and Public Radio International Interview with Fredrik Logevall". Archived from the original on 2012-08-24. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
  18. ^ Press Release (21 November 2013). "Ann Applebaum wins 2013 Cundill Prize". McGill University. Retrieved 24 December 2013.

Further reading

  • Logevall, Fredrik. "Contingent Histories" H-DIPLO, March 2, 2021, online, autobiographical essay.
  • Pach, Chester; Ewing, Cindy; Kim, Kevin Y.; Bessner, Daniel; Logevall, Fredrik. "A Roundtable on Daniel Bessner and Fredrik Logevall, 'Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations'" Passport: The Newsletter of the SHAFR (Sept 2020), Vol. 51 Issue 2, pp 39–44

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