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Fredrik Logevall

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Bachelors History Simon Fraser University

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According to Wikipedia, Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book 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 , won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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Fredrik Logevall's Published Works

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Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999) (106)
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (2012) (74)
America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009) (57)
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (1978) (31)
The first Vietnam War : colonial conflict and Cold War crisis (2007) (23)
Nixon in the world : American foreign relations, 1969-1977 (2008) (20)
The Swedish-American Conflict over Vietnam (1993) (19)
Politics and Foreign Relations (2009) (17)
A Critique of Containment (2004) (16)
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts (2011) (12)
De Gaulle, Neutralization, and American Involvement in Vietnam, 1963-1964 (1992) (11)
The Making of Detente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam. (1996) (11)
The origins of the Vietnam War (2001) (10)
The Indochina wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975 (2010) (8)
The foreign policies of Lyndon Johnson : beyond Vietnam (2000) (7)
Vietnam and the Question of What Might Have Been (1998) (6)
Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (2004) (6)
Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations (Spring 2020) (2020) (5)
Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (2005) (4)
America's Cold War (2020) (3)
First Among Critics: Walter Lippmann and the Vietnam War (1995) (3)
Presidential Address: Structure, Contingency, and the War in Vietnam (2015) (3)
Bringing in the Other Side: New Scholarship on the Vietnam Wars (2001) (3)
ANATOMY OF AN UNNECESSARY WAR:: The Iraq Invasion (2010) (3)
America Isolated: The Western Powers and the Escalation of the War (2003) (2)
5. Anatomy of an Unnecessary War: The Iraq Invasion (2010) (2)
Why Internationalization Matters (2014) (1)
From Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective (2005) (1)
Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: A Delicate Balance: John Sherman Cooper and the Republican Opposition to the Vietnam War (2003) (1)
The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam. By Keith L. Nelson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xx, 217 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-4883-0.) (1996) (0)
Choosing War in Vietnam@@@Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (2000) (0)
The Biggest Hawk After All (2004) (0)
Roundtable (2014) (0)
Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century, by David A. Lake. (2000) (0)
COURSE OBJECTIVE : Through readings, lectures, videos, discussion, and written assignments, students will achieve a deeper understanding of the major developments of American life in the 1950s. (2014) (0)
American Grand Strategy (2021) (0)
H. W. Brands, editor. The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam. (Foreign Relations and the Presidency, number 1.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1999. Pp. 194. $29.95 (2001) (0)
8. The Quiet American (2017) (0)
Presidential Note * Online Discussion of Diplomatic History (2014) (0)
Roundtable - Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (New York: Random House, 2012, $20.00). Pp. 864. isbn 978 0 3757 5647 4. (2014) (0)
Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. By Edwin E. Moöse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xx, 304 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2300-7.) (1997) (0)
The Uses of Alarmism: American Politics and Foreign Policy after 1945 (2012) (0)

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