Lloyd C. Gardner (born 1934) is an American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
, a member of the "
Wisconsin School" of diplomatic history along with
Walter LaFeber
Walter Fredrick LaFeber (August 30, 1933March 9, 2021) was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as t ...
and
Thomas J. McCormick
Thomas J. McCormick (March 6, 1933 – July 25, 2020) was an American academic who was emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the same place he got a Ph.
D. where he succeeded William Appleman Williams and continue ...
. He was educated at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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.
Gardner was the
Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at
Rutgers University
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, where he taught since 1963. A specialist in 20th century
History of U.S. foreign policy, Gardner has held several national fellowships, including two
Fulbright Professorships in
England
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and
Finland
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, and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He is author or editor of 16 books on American foreign policy.
The Lloyd C. Gardner Fellowship Program in Leadership and Social Policy at Rutgers was established in his honor.
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Bibliography
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy'', Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964; paperback, Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
*Lloyd C. Gardner,
Architects of Illusion: Men and Ideas in American Foreign Policy, 1941–1949
', Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Imperial America: American Foreign Policy Since 1898'', New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1976
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''A Covenant With Power: America and the World From Wilson to Reagan'', London: Macmillan, 1984.
*''America in Vietnam: A Documentary History'', with William A. Williams et al. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941–1954'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe from Munich to Yalta'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995.
*Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger, eds., ''Vietnam: The Early Decisions'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
*Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger, eds., ''International Perspectives on Vietnam'', College Station, TX: Texas A&M University of Press, 2000.
*Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner and Wilfried Mausbach, eds., ''America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives'', Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
*Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn B. Young
Marilyn B. Young (April 25, 1937 – February 19, 2017) was a historian of American foreign relations and professor of history at New York University.
She graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn in 1953 and Vassar College in 19 ...
, eds., ''The New Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy'', New York: The New Press, 2003.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping'', Rutgers University Press, 2004.
*Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young, eds., ''Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past'', New York: The New Press, 2007.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy From the 1970s to the Present'', New York: The New Press, 2008.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II'', New York: The New Press, 2009.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak'', New York: The New Press, 2011.
*Lloyd C. Gardner, ''The Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare'', New York: The New Press, 2013.
References
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21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Cold War historians
Historians of the Vietnam War
Historians of the United States
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Historians of American foreign relations
1934 births
21st-century American male writers