Roger Paul Morris (born January 15, 1938) 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 stu ...

, foreign policy analyst, and journalist. He served on the staff of the

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under the presidencies of both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. As an author he has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the

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and the National Endowment for the Humanities. On two occasions he has won the

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’ National Award for Distinguished Investigative Journalism.

Biography

Roger Morris earned his

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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 ...

. He entered government service in 1966 as a Junior Foreign Service Officer. After an assignment to Belgrade, he was chosen as a research assistant on a specific project to former

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Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (pronounced ; April 11, 1893October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was also Truman ...

. He first joined the

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staff under the administration of Democratic President

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. When

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Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

won the presidency in 1968, he appointed

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as his

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, and Kissinger asked Morris to remain on the NSC staff as a senior staff member. However, Morris resigned in April 1970, when Nixon ordered the Cambodian Campaign. Morris has served as a university lecturer, but is best known as a writer. His biography of Nixon, ''Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician,'' was short-listed for the

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. He served as a senior fellow of the Green Institute. His major works include: * ''Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy''. 1978. * ''The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising'', Franklin Watts, 1983. *
Haig: The General's Progress
', ''

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'' Press, 1982, . Covers the remarkable rise of

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from boyhood to Secretary of State. * ''Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician'', 1991. *
Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
', Henry Holt, 1996, . Detailed coverage of the rise of

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and

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. * ''The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas'' (with Sally Denton). * ''Shadow of the Eagle'', Alfred Knopf, 2006. * ''The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Gates Inheritance''. * ''The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The World That Made Bob''. * ''The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Specialist''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Roger 1937 births Living people Harvard University alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American political writers American male non-fiction writers