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Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Henry Kissinger and the American Century

The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama

Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time. 

Professor Jeffrey is distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous books on Germany as well as Israel, including Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989, and his latest Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 which was published on April 14th, the release date of this episode. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949

Putin’s Continuities: From ‘Israelis as Nazis’ to ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine (Times of Israel)

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich

Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989

Professor Megan Black is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

The Global Interior

William Appleman Williams

Ian Tyrell

Kurk Dorsey Bernath Lecture

Melanie McAlister

Monica Kim

Stuart Schrader

Amy Offner

Genevieve Clutario

Professor Peter J. Spiro is the Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is the author of numerous books on citizenship and international law including At Home in Two Countries, the subject of our conversation today. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

At Home in Two Countries

The New Sovereigntists: American Exceptionalism and Its False Prophets

Citizenship by Dimitry Kochenov

Morton Halperin

Charles Maier

Robert Keohane

Professor Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History at Bard College. Prior to that, he taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was the chair of the history department. He's the author of numerous books including works on Reagan and Thatcher's relationship, a dual biography of Disraeli and Gladstone and the subject of our conversation Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian

Journals: 1952-2000

The Age of Jackson

Orestes Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress 

The Age of Roosevelt

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Perils of the Court Historian

Patrick Geoghegan

The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

A Question of Leadership

Professor David Brown is the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College. The following books and people are pertinent to this episode:

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography

The Idea of the Two Party System

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

Everyman His Own Historian

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The History of United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

The Education of Henry Adams

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

The Law of Civilization and Decay

James Finley

Professor Luke Nichter is a Professor of History and James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University. The following books and articles are pertinent to this episode:

The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War

White House Years by Henry Kissinger

IR Talk Episode with Professor Thomas Schwartz

Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World  

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Professor John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett chair of Naval and Military History at Yale University. He has received the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Humanities Medal. The following are his books and articles mentioned and alluded to in the podcast:

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

George F. Kennan: An American Life

On Grand Strategy

Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947

Expanding the Data Base: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Enrichment of Security Studies

The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System

International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War