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Melvyn Leffler
July 22, 2008
Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward
R. Stettinius professor of American History at the University
of Virginia where he is also co-chair of the Governing America
in a Global Era program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Dr. Leffler served as Dean of the College and Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences at UVA from 1997 - 2001.
His most recent book, For the
Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the
Cold War, was published in September. It has been called "a
masterful account of the Cold War by a distinguished historian
in full stride" in a recent Foreign Affairs review, and
as "possibly the most readable and insightful study of the
Cold War yet," by Publishers Weekly. The author of many
books on foreign affairs, Dr. Leffler was awarded the Bancroft
Prize in 1993 for A Preponderance of Power: National Security,
the Truman Administration and the Cold War. He is currently editing
a three volume Cambridge History of the Cold War and beginning
work on a book on George W. Bush and American foreign policy.
Dr. Leffler served in the Office
of the Secretary of Defense during the Carter administration,
where he worked on arms control and contingency planning as a
fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was president
of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in
1993; a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars from 2001 - 2002; and a Henry Kissinger Fellow at the
Library of Congress from 2004 - 2005. |
