Barton J. Bernstein (born 1936) is

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emeritus of History at

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and Co-Chair of the International Relations Program and the International Policy Studies Program. He has published about early Cold War history, as well as about the history of nuclear weapons development and strategy during the 1940s and 1950s. He received his PhD in history from

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.The Independent Institut
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Works

*''The Truman Administration: A Documentary History'', New York, Harper & Row, 1966 *
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History
', New York, Pantheon Books, 1968 *
Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations
', New York: Harcourt, 1969 *
Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration
', Quadrangle Books, 1970

References

External links

Official Page at Stanford's Website

Official Page at the Independent Institute
1936 births Stanford University Department of History faculty Living people Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of nuclear weapons American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub