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William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941 in New York City) is an American political scientist. His biography of
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. 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 in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science 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 highe ...
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 in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College
Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educati ...
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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 art ...
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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 journalist Philip Taubman. 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