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William Taubman | |
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 Taubman in 2018 | |
| Born | William Chase Taubman (1941-11-13)November 13, 1941 (age 84) New York City, U.S. |
| Spouse | Jane A. Taubman |
| Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2004) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MA,PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Institutions | Amherst College |
| Notable works | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003),Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017) |
| Website | williamtaubmanbooks |
William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941, in New York City) is an Americanpolitical scientist.His biography ofNikita Khrushchev won thePulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and theNational Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. He is currentlyBertrand Snell Professor of Political Science atAmherst College.
Taubman is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman, who was chief music critic and then chief theater critic forThe New York Times in the 1950s and 60s. He is a graduate of theBronx High School of Science and received a B.A. fromHarvard University in 1962, an M.A. fromColumbia University in 1965, a Certificate of theRussian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969.
William Taubman is the brother of diplomatic journalistPhilip Taubman.
His wife, Jane A. Taubman, was a professor of Russian, Emerita, at Amherst College.
Taubman was the recipient of a 2006Guggenheim fellowship.[1]
| External videos | |
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 Part One ofBooknotes interview with Taubman onKhrushchev: The Man and His Era, April 20, 2003,C-SPAN | |
| Part Two ofBooknotes interview with Taubman, April 27, 2003,C-SPAN |
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