Roger Morris (American writer)
Roger Paul Morris (born January 15, 1938) is an American
U.S. National Security Council under the presidencies of both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. As an author he has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[1] the Society of American Historians and the National Endowment for the Humanities. On two occasions he has won the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ National Award for Distinguished Investigative Journalism.[2]
Biography
Roger Morris earned his
Cambodian Campaign
.
Morris has served as a university lecturer, but is best known as a writer. His biography of Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, was short-listed for the National Book Award.[5] He served as a senior fellow of the Green Institute.
His major works include:
- Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. 1978.
- The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising, Franklin Watts, 1983.
- Haig: The General's Progress, ISBN 0-87223-753-2. Covers the remarkable rise of Alexander Haigfrom boyhood to Secretary of State.
- Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, 1991.
- Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America, Henry Holt, 1996, .
- The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas (with Sally Denton).
- Shadow of the Eagle, Alfred Knopf, 2006.
- The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Gates Inheritance.
- The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The World That Made Bob.
- The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Specialist.
References
- ^ "Guggenheim Fellows-Full List".
- ^ "Roger Morris | Conservative Book Club". Conservative Book Club. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ISBN 9781416544562.
- ISBN 9780813525464.
- ^ "Roger Morris | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-04-11.