Paul Seabury (May 6, 1923 – October 17, 1990) was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Born in

Hempstead, Long Island The Town of Hempstead (also known historically as South Hempstead) is the largest of the three Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead, New York, North Hempstead and Oys ...

, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

in 1946, and 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 ...

with a Ph.D. He taught at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the

President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is an advisory body to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self-description, it "provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy of ...

during the

Reagan Administration Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over D ...

. He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and ...

.http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/07/kt4w103407/files/kt4w103407.pdf He died in

Pinole, California Pinole (Spanish for "cornmeal") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 18,390 at the 2010 census. History The name derives from "pinole", a Nāhuatl word for a kind of flour made from the seeds of ...

. Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for

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Awards

* 1964

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

* 1961-62

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 ...

Works

"The Banality of Liberalism", ''The New York Review of Books'', November 11, 1965
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"Trendier than thou: the many temptations of the Episcopal Church", ''Harper's Magazine'', 1978
* ''The Wilhelmstrasse'', University of California Press, 1954 * ''Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy'', Random House, 1963 * ''The Balance of Power,'' Chandler Pub. Co., 1965 * ''The Rise and Decline of the Cold War,'' Basic Books, 1967 * * * (2nd edition Brassey's, 2006, )

References

Swarthmore College alumni Columbia University alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty 1923 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers People from Hempstead (village), New York Historians from New York (state) Bancroft Prize winners Historians from California 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub