David Fromkin
| David Fromkin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 27, 1932 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions |
Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
David Fromkin (born August 27th, 1932 Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a noted author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on 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. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners
A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, he is Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, and Law at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Before his career as a historian, Prof. Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser. In the 1972 Democratic primary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey. As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, then as an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Noam Chomsky criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed NATO intervention in the Kosovo War.
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