I am from Higgins Beach, in Scarborough, Maine, six miles south of Portland. After spending five years as track announcer at Scarborough Downs, I left to study fulltime in graduate school, where my advisor was Akira Iriye. I have a B.A. (1988 ) and Ph.D. (1993) from Harvard, and an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989).
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For the spring 2010 semester, I am teaching:
- United States since 1950 (B.A.)
- The American Presidency (M.A.)
- Cold War Foreign Policy (Grad. Center)
A full list of my courses is here.
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My two most recent books are:
- “All the Way with LBJ”: The 1964 Presidential Election (Cambridge University Press, 2009);
- Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (Thomas Dunne, 2008, 2nd edition; co-authored with Stuart Taylor), which has been optioned by HBO.
A full list of my books, scholarly articles and presentations, invited talks, and op-eds is here.
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During the 2007-8 academic year, I was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University. My research project for the year, Lyndon Johnson and Israel: The Secret Presidential Recordings, can be downloaded here; the audio clips can be listened to here.
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I have blogged on the Duke lacrosse case at Durham-in-Wonderland; and also am part of a joint blog of historians at Cliopatria (History News Network).
Feel free to e-mail me with any comments or questions.
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