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William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American
Trump and Putin in Historical Perspective: How We Got into the New Cold War, Amherst College A talk by William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (June 6, 2017)
* '' Khrushchev: The Man and His Era'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), . * ''Moscow Spring'' with Jane Taubman (Summit Books, 1989), . * ''Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War'' (W W Norton & Company, 1982), . *''Khrushchev on Khrushchev'' by Sergei Khrushchev, (editor/translator). (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990)
Faculty page
at Amherst College * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taubman, William Living people The Bronx High School of Science alumni Harvard University alumni Columbia University alumni Amherst College faculty American biographers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners 1940 births American male non-fiction writers
William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American political scientist
Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...
. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...
in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Bronx High School of Science
The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public specialized high school in The Bronx in New York City. It is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Admission to Bronx Science involves passing the Spec ...
and received a B.A. from Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 1962, an M.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
in 1965, a Certificate of the Russian Institute
The Harriman Institute, the first academic center in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was founded at Columbia University in 1946, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, as the Russia ...
in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
He is currently Bertrand Snell
Bertrand Hollis Snell (December 9, 1870 – February 2, 1958) was an American politician who represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives. He was a pro-business, low-tax, isolationist conservative Republican who ...
Professor of Political Science at Amherst College
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Taubman was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
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Personal life
Taubman is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was chief music critic and then chief theater critic for ''The New York Times'' in the 1950s and 60s. William Taubman is the brother of diplomatic journalistPhilip Taubman
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...
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His wife, Jane A. Taubman, was a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.
Selected publications
* '' Gorbachev: His Life and Times'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), .Trump and Putin in Historical Perspective: How We Got into the New Cold War, Amherst College A talk by William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (June 6, 2017)
* '' Khrushchev: The Man and His Era'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), . * ''Moscow Spring'' with Jane Taubman (Summit Books, 1989), . * ''Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War'' (W W Norton & Company, 1982), . *''Khrushchev on Khrushchev'' by Sergei Khrushchev, (editor/translator). (Boston: Little, Brown, 1990)
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Faculty page
at Amherst College * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taubman, William Living people The Bronx High School of Science alumni Harvard University alumni Columbia University alumni Amherst College faculty American biographers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners 1940 births American male non-fiction writers