Bruce Kuklick ( ; born March 3, 1941 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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) is an American
historian
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. He currently serves as the Nichols Professor of American History at the
University of Pennsylvania
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, specializing in diplomatic and intellectual history of the United States and the
history of philosophy
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.
He has written several books on those subjects, including ''Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine'', which was described as "a biography of Fontaine is as good a story as that life itself."
Selected publications
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American policy and the Division of Germany: the clash with Russia over Reparations', 1972
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* Co-author with Emmanuel Gerard.
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1941 births
Living people
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Pennsylvania historian
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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