Award-winning biographer and historian named Mark Clark Chair of History
January 12, 2011
Robert Dallek to address the Corps of Cadets
CHARLESTON, SC – January 18, 2011 – Robert Dallek, one of America’s most respected authorities on the presidency and modern American history,has been named the Gen. Mark. Clark Chair of History for the springsemester.
As a visiting professor, Dallek will teach courses on the Americanpresidency. He also will address the South Carolina Corps of Cadets at6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, in McAlister Field House. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Mark Clark Chair of History was established in 1982 in honor of the11th president of the military college and a war hero whose service inthe U.S. Army spanned 40 years. During World War II, Clark was commander of Allied troops that liberated Rome in 1944.
Professor Dallek is the best-selling author of 18 books, including the“New York Times” No. 1 bestseller, “John F. Kennedy: An UnfinishedLife,” which “Publishers Weekly” called “a riveting tour de force.” His2007 book “Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt won the BancroftPrize, one of the most prestigious awards given by the Americanhistorical profession. Several of his books have been named notablebooks of the year by the “New York Times” Book Review, including “TheAmerican Style of Foreign Policy” and his monumental, two-volumebiography of former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Since earning his Ph.D. at Columbia University, Dallek has taught atsome of the world’s most prestigious universities. He was a professor of history at the University of California-Los Angeles and BostonUniversity, and he has served as a visiting professor or instructor atColumbia, Oxford, Stanford, the University of Texas and DartmouthCollege. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts andSciences, senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities,and past-president of the Society of American Historians. Dallek is also a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines. He has advised documentary filmmakers on topics ranging from the Vietnam War to thepresidency of Ronald Reagan, and his television and radio creditsinclude appearances on PBS’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” The Comedy Channel’s “The Daily Show,” and on CNN and the CBS Evening News.
