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David Fromkin | |
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| Born | (1932-08-27)August 27, 1932 |
| Died | June 11, 2017(2017-06-11) (aged 84) New York, New York |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
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| Institutions | Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies |
David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East,A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East.[1] The book was a finalist for both theNational Book Critics Circle Award[1] and thePulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[2] Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 withThe King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners.
Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932.[2]
He died on June 11, 2017, in New York City due to heart failure; he was 84.[1]
A graduate of theUniversity of Chicago and theUniversity of Chicago Law School, he was Professor Emeritus of History andInternational Relations, and Law at thePardee School of Global Studies atBoston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future.[1]
Before his career as a historian, Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser.[2] In the 1972Democraticprimary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidateHubert Humphrey.[2] As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in theArmy Judge Advocate General's Corps.[2]
He retired as professor emeritus in 2013.[1]
Noam Chomsky criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backedNATO intervention in theKosovo War. Discussing Fromkin's bookKosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans, Chomsky stated that Fromkin "asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of 'altruism' and 'moral fervor' alone" inbombing Yugoslavia during theKosovo war.[3][4]
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 Booknotes interview with Fromkin onIn the Time of the Americans, October 22, 1995,C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Fromkin onThe Way of the World, March 1, 1999,C-SPAN |
In a widely-praised book on the war, historian David Fromkin asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of "altruism" and "moral fervor" alone, forging "a new kind of approach to the use of power in world politics" as they "reacted to the deportation of more than a million Kosovars from their homeland" by bombing so as to save them "from horrors of suffering, or from death".
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