Robert Dallek

Robert Dallek recently retired as Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford. He is an American historian specializing in the presidency. His research centers on United States presidents, politics, and foreign policy. Most notable studies are of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, the American Style of Foreign Policy, and Hail to the Chief: The making and Unmaking of American Presidents. Currently, he is at work on a biography of John F. Kennedy. He has also written numerous op-ed pieces for major newspapers and has provided commentary on radio and television about historical influences on current affairs. From 1994 to 1995 he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded an honorary M.A. He has been a Visiting Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, as well as at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and The Citadel (where he was the General Mark Clark Professor in 2011). He is the author of many books, including Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945, which won the Bancroft Prize. Dallek served as president of the Society of American Historians in 2004-05. He is a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.