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Michael S. Sherry

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Michael S. Sherry's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael S. Sherry is an American historian, and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. Life He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975.

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Michael S. Sherry's Published Works

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The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (1987) (191)
In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s (1995) (171)
Unpacking My Library (2017) (51)
Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45 (1978) (39)
The War in South Vietnam: The Years of the Offensive, 1963–1968. By John Schlight Washington and The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam. By Mark Clodfelter New York (1990) (38)
Dead or alive: American vengeance goes global (2005) (22)
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy (2007) (19)
The Rise of American Air Power (1987) (15)
The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War. (1995) (15)
Preparing for the next war (1977) (14)
In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s. (1997) (11)
America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing,1910-1945. (1995) (7)
Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline (1995) (7)
William I. Hitchcock. The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe (2011) (6)
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931–1941 (review) (2012) (5)
War as a Way of Life (2018) (5)
The Punitive Turn in American Life (2020) (5)
We Value Teaching despite—and because of—Its Low Status (1994) (4)
The United States and Strategic Bombing: From Prophecy to Memory (2008) (4)
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. (1992) (4)
A Hidden–Hand Garrison State? (2003) (3)
Death, Mourning, and Memorial Culture (2007) (3)
Projections of Hegemony and Consent in Film (1995) (2)
K. A. Cuordileone. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War .:Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (2006) (2)
Colloquy: Queering America and the World (2015) (2)
Eisenhower's Heroic But Failed Crusade Against Militarization (2000) (2)
War and weapons: The new cultural history (1990) (2)
Joseph Maiolo, Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931–1941. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 473 pp. $35.00 (2012) (1)
Was 1945 a break in history (1987) (1)
Toward an Empire of Justice (2016) (1)
The Triumph of Democratic Capitalism-- Without the Democracy and the Capitalism (1997) (1)
Army Diplomacy: American Military Occupation and Foreign Policy After World War II. By Walter M. Hudson. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. Pp. 395. $50.00.) (2017) (1)
Review of The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe by William I. Hitchcock (2011) (0)
Jamie Harker, Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, $67.50). Pp. 216. isbn 978 0 8166 7913 3. (2014) (0)
America as Reluctant Warrior (2004) (0)
The Crisis of a Militarized Order, 1963–1969 (2020) (0)
Joseph Maiolo, Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931–1941. New York: Basic Books, 2010. 473 pp. $35.00 (2012) (0)
Scientists in the Cold War: Masters or Servants? (1994) (0)
The “Unintended Consequences” of America’s Arsenal (2014) (0)
Review of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War by Michael D. Gordin (2008) (0)
The Vietnam War: Digging Deeply, If Not Widely (2010) (0)
Spencer R. Weart. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1988. Pp. 535. $29.50 (1989) (0)
The Sprawling Punitive Turn, 1993–2001 (2020) (0)
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson, eds., Exploring the History of American Foreign Relations (2007) (0)
Julian E. Zelizer. Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism. New York: Basic Books. 2010. Pp. v, 583. $35.00 (2010) (0)
Patriotic Orthodoxy and U.S. Decline (1995) (0)
JEFFREY GEIGER Taking Aim : New Documentary and War (2008) (0)
Hail to the Chiefs (2015) (0)
Entering and Exiting the Vietnam War: Cowardly Generals and Courageous Soldiers (1997) (0)
Review of Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold by Frank Costigliola (2012) (0)
War on Crime in Vietnam’s Wake, 1969–1973 (2020) (0)
American Wars, Barely Visible to Americans (2015) (0)
Review of Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jamie Harker (2014) (0)
Review: Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains by David W. Mills (2016) (0)
What has changed and not changed in American historical practice? Responses from our readers (1990) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1988) (0)
Gay Artists in Midcentury America (2007) (0)
Contributors (1976) (0)
Our Madness for War (2010) (0)
Comment: Humility for Globalcop? (2002) (0)
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America (review) (2001) (0)
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941 by Joseph Maiolo (review) (2013) (0)
Book Review: Bennett, One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II, by Michael Sherry (2013) (0)
Epilogue: The Enduring Punitive Turn (2020) (0)
Exploring the History of American Foreign Relations (review) (2007) (0)
Frank Costigliola. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War (2012) (0)
The Punitive Turn in an Age of Vengeance, 2001–2009 (2020) (0)
Allan Berube. Coming Out under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Free Press. 1990. Pp. xiii, 377. $22.95 (1991) (0)
The Triumph of Militarized Crime-Fighting, 1981–1993 (2020) (0)
Spectrums of Oppression Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War (2014) (0)
Reversal or Redirection? 2009–2017 (2020) (0)
Force and Legitimacy in World Politics: Dead or alive: American vengeance goes global (2006) (0)
Military Preparedness for the First Postwar Years, 1943-47@@@Preparing for the Next War: America Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45. (1978) (0)
The Adversaries: America, Russia and the Open World, 1941-62@@@The End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War (1982) (0)
Men like That: A Southern Queer History. By John Howard. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiv, 395 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-35471-7.) (2000) (0)
War and Politics (2009) (0)
K. A. Cuordileone. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 282. $24.95 (2006) (0)
Letter to the Editors (2019) (0)
John Dower. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq (2011) (0)
Christopher S. Derosa. Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War. (Studies in War, Society, and the Military.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 328. $49.95 (2007) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
A War “unlike any other”?: America and the World since September 11 (2011) (0)
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944–1945 (2019) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)

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