David Aikman is an

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, and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Aikman graduated from Oxford University's

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in 1965 and gained a PhD from the

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in Russian and Chinese history in 1979. He worked as a journalist for ''

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'' magazine from 1971 to 1994, during which he reported on nearly all the major historical events of the time. He has interviewed several major world figures, including

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, Pham Van Dong,

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

and

Billy Graham William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally in the late 1940s. He was a prominent evangelical Christi ...

. Aikman served as a professor of history at

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from 2005 to 2015. He is also a senior fellow at

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. In 2002 Aikman presented a pro-

creationist Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 'th ...

film called ''Raging Waters: Evidence of the Genesis Flood in Australia'', which was produced by

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. In 2018 Aikman was hired as editor in chief of Godspeed Magazine.

Bibliography

*''Love China Today'' (Tyndale House, 1978), editor and co-author *''Pacific Rim: Area of Change, Area of Opportunity'' (Little, Brown and Company, 1986) *''Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography'' (New American Library, 1988), Co-author *''Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy'' (Warner Books, 1989), Co-author *''Berlin: Portrait of a City'' (Bullfinch Press, 1990), author of Introduction to photos by Stephane Duroy *''When the Almond Tree Blossoms'' (Word Publishing, 1993) *''Hope: The Heart's Great Quest'' (Servant Publications, September 1995) *''Great Souls: Six Who Changed The Century'' (Word Publishing, March 1998; paperback, Lexington Books, 2002) *''Jesus in Beijing'' (Regnery Publishing, October 2003) *''A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush'' (W Publishing Group, April 2004) *''QI'' (Broadman & Holman Publishers, October 2005) *''The Delusion of Disbelief'' (Tyndale House Publishers, April 2008) *''The Mirage of Peace: Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East'' (Regal Books, August 2009)

Filmography

*''Raging Waters: Evidence of the Genesis Flood in Australia''

References

External links

* Archived February 9, 2020.
David Aikman's bio at ''Godspeed Magazine''
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Life

Bibliography

Filmography

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